All Eyes On “The Wages of Corruption”

Sammy Oke Akombi recently launched his book in Buea.

Corruption against which Cameroon government has loaded weaponry to fight has been pictured in a book. Titled “The Wages of Corruption”, the 13 chapters and 128 pages in the form of a collection of stories, authored by an ace educationist and linguist, Sammy Oke Akombi, was launched in Buea, South West Regional capital, last October 3, 2014.

The book satirises corruption at its peak in a country that is struggling to trend its own development.

The author complimented over 200 copies to a cheerful audience at the launch setting, Buea Mountain Hotel. But not before the celebrated educationist and Pan-Africanist, Nwalimu George Ngwane, had taken some 20 minutes to review “The Wages of Corruption.”

Quoting extensively from previous writers on the corruption theme, the reviewer leaned on the conclusion that the author did not set out to find a panacea but rather to ring the bell so that consciences could be awakened against an ill that is pulling down Cameroon’s aspirations to emerge by 2035.

Speaker after speaker took the floor to drum up the book’s theme. Akombi has, through his book, made his contribution to the collective resolve by concerned Cameroonians to wage a war against the “unusual friend of fairness”, he affirms.

“The Wages of Corruption” is about the fourth of Akombi’s volumes after “The Raped Amulet” and “The Woman Who Ate Python” published by Langaa Research and Publishing in Mankon-Bamenda. The launch of “The Wages of Corruption” in Buea pulled a cross-section of personalities among which the Secretary General at the Governor’s office, Clement Fon Ndikum, traditional rulers and academic dons.