Martin Mimb blames the media for crisis in sport

During a press conference organised in the framework of the celebration of the second anniversary of Radio Sport Info (RSI), the Director of this radio station addressed his colleagues of the sporting press which he accuses of allowing themselves to be manipulated by the Cameroonian sports leaders.

According to Martin Camus Mimb, journalist, Director General of Radio Sport Info (RSI), the Cameroonian sports press is responsible for the crises that has shaken the Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) and other national sports federations.

"When the press starts to do its job well, things will change," said the boss of the first exclusively sports radio in the Central African sub-region. He was speaking during the press conference organised in the framework of the celebration of the second anniversary of the radio which he launched April 15, 2013.

Former Spectrum Television (STV) and Equinoxe Tv journalist thinks that they are easily manipulated by actors of the sporting scene and asked to follow his example. "If some sports leaders suspect that there are actors who finance my radio, it is because they have not yet managed to give me their money... Even if someone gives me money, I 'eat' and normally do my work, he said.

He believed that, RSI will always try to lead by example, even if the task is not easy. "The world of sport is polluted, the actors are trying to manipulate the press at RSI and elsewhere." Our struggle will be to uphold the ethics of this sector.

Look, we know more sports leaders than players and athletes. If I asked how many first division players you know, I'm not sure that you can name 10 but if I ask 20 directors of football, you recite them. This is part of the deformations of the sports press.

Sports press has given the impression that their struggles and small quarrels interest people more than anything else instead of us to look further into the discipline", he said.

Martin Camus, recognized as one of the best sports commentators in francophone Africa, believe that the State must urgently organize the profession of journalist in Cameroon.