University Games almost ruined by a scandal

Yesterday, at the launch of the University Games at the University of Yaounde I, the ceremony was disrupted by a group of people. Many of whom were traders waited for Jacques Fame Ndongo, Minister of Higher Education to begin his speech, to organize the boycott.

Twenty men and women went to the back of the stage, where the stands are to vent at the official stand where Jacques Fame Ndongo was reading his speech.

"We can not bear this! We paid for stands and we have not been duly served," cried Solange Atchang A Matchan, one of the aggrieved.

Each of those who were fighting for their rights she said handed 150 000 CFA francs but has received no stand. While approaching the financial services of the University of Yaounde I, the reporter of Le Jour realized that Luke Marcel Ntamack Nwaha, one of the frustrated, had effectively paid 150 000 on 2nd April for a 9m² stand he continues to wait for signed by Magloire Nkwonda the cashier to whom he handed over the money.

"We will go all the way because this is our lives. This thievery will not succeed. We gave our money for months, we did not fight, when people came to take the stands after us," said Solange Atchang A Matchan.

Despite threats and other intimidation, nobody met them and when Roger Milla ignited the flames for the games not far from where they were installed, they began to shout: "the pits! the stands! the stands! ".

Campus police and police officers have all been enlisted to repel them and all was in vain. Anne Ngo Njomb who was in one of the stands gave us more information, "The distribution of the stands is very poorly organized. Among us there are people who have the same number of the stand."

For a case that amounts to millions of CFA francs, it is impressive that management is taking it lightly. A simple calculation shows that for the 150 stands swarming the campus of the University of Yaounde I, this institution has received 22 500 000 CFA francs due 150.000 per stand.

The cries of these frustrated seems to have been heard since yesterday, while the football game that opened the games was played. Paul Emmanuel Pondi was there to speak to those who had already opened their booths.