Three ministers banned from leaving the country

Their passports have not been far away from them, but they can't, until further notice, leave their country. Essimi Menye, former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Jean-Pierre Biyiti bi Essam, former Minister of Post and Telecommunications, and Bernard Messengue Avom, former Minister of Public Works, are at the disposal of justice.

This limitation probably explains why Essimi Menye, ill for several days, remains hooked at the CNPS Hospital in Yaounde since Sunday, October 11, when he should have already been evacuated to Europe for a better treatment.

Former Agriculture Minister and former Minister of Post and Telecommunications, both out of the Government of October 2, are within the scope of judicial investigations in various cases, including one in coercion.

In a case that reveals a verification mission report of the management of the temporary administration of Campost (Cameroon postal services), following investigations by the specialized body of judicial police officers in December 2014, it emerged that Essimi Menye, then finance minister, is "liable for coercion with the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Biyiti bi Essam in the non-compliance of the wording of the technical assistance agreement between the State of Cameroon and Sofrepost and the stipulations contained therein."

Clearly, the TCS thinks there's a wolf in the concession of the public postal service in the French company Sofrepost. But these two personalities, each, are under investigation that can justify a ban on leaving the country.

The former Minister of Agriculture may have been overtaken by the charges against him in May 2014 by the Attorney General at the time of the CHT, especially Emile Zéphyrin NSOGA's liquidation of Amity Bank Cameroon.

Justine Aimée Ngounou, new prosecutor, has clearly taken over the suspicions of her predecessor, who was looking for "reasons Amity Bank whose reorganization was expected to regain its balance, was sold to Banque Atlantique, nor those for which the Minister Essimi Menye decided to support the order of FCFA 9.025 billion to the purchaser."

Moreover, "he is also criticized for having appointed Essimi Menye, as part of the liquidation of former Cameroonian tobacco company, ordered the liquidator to sell a plantation of 50 hectares to his little brother who is dead."

The former Minister of Post and Telecommunications, Jean-Pierre Biyiti bi Essam, when he was in government, was under a charge for defusing of 30 million FCFA which was unsupported in CCP accounts made when he was Secretary General at MINPOSTEL. He must proceed to refund the corpus delicti, or 30 million FCFA. Whether this refund is off the legal action."

Other cases which are suspended above her head, is the case of "the pope's money" (700 million CFA) that Biyiti bi Essam, then Mincom, had made transit through its personal account, exposing it to a charge of attempted embezzlement of public funds. While connoisseurs of TCS indicate that this special court does not know attempted diversions, but accomplished facts of alleged embezzlement. We can add the charges, as of January 2015, of obtaining undue advantages at Campost (Peugeot 607 and 59 million transfer).