Adoum Garoua explains excesses by government officials while in Brazil

During a meeting of oral questions by deputies to the members of the Government July 04, the Minister of Sports and Physical Education (Minsep), Adoum Garoua, had to explain many excesses of the Cameroonian delegation to Brazil, decried by the media, especially the bloated character of the Cameroonian delegation (with frames accompanied by girlfriends, presidents of regional sports delegations, etc... as some newspapers and even the Government daily reported).

"Regarding the delegation called bloated, we had 50 people in the sports delegation (players with their coaches and the president of the normalization Committee) and 23 in the official delegation, composed of the representatives of the senior clerk of the State, including of the Presidency of the Republic, the Senate, National Assembly, some technical departments such as finance, sport including the delegation of national security.

For Fecafoot, she had the right to compose its delegation based on its budgets. Perhaps there was confusion", he suggested.

Concerning the refusal of players to take the national flag in Yaoundé, the Minister said: "I would like to say about the problems of the flag and others that the head of State in person made an investigation. I wouldn't anticipate the result here.

The Minister of Sports did not however reveal the amount of the expenses incurred in Brazil under the pretext that the Cashier had not yet made the accounts.

The Minister just explained that the Ministry is busy with the premium of players, their accommodation, their transportation, their nutrition, their health and upgrading sports facilities available.

Meanwhile, to Fecafoot, it had its management with its budget which it could have its own way they revealed that: "We have no right to control what FIFA gives to the federations".

Adoum Garoua also told deputies that he went to Brazil as a "head of delegation", to maintain good relationship with former Lions like Joseph Owona, and that he also never had issues with Joseph Owona, the Chairman of the normalization committee.