Cameroon: Disgraced CAMTEL Boss Barred From Leaving The Country

The Director of CAMTEL, David Nkotto Emane has been barred from leaving the country. It's been for several months that this rumour about the restrictions placed on David Nkotto Emane had circulated like wild fire across Cameroon. The rumour was collaborated by speculations that he had been served with a restriction order by the Special Criminal Court.

This warrant of arrest has been issued to all the frontier police with instructions to effectuate the arrest, since the 2nd of March,2018. According to the announcements made over the radio, the erstwhile director , David Nkotto Emane and other senior staff have been barred from leaving the Country. Those barred from leaving the Country alongside the erstwhile Director of CAMTEL are as follows:

Richard Maga, Assistant Director of CAMTEL, 

Enow Kenneth Agbor, former Director of Finance and Budget,

Nganou Boris Judicael, program Coordinator of MCN

,Dieutoss Evariste, former Director of Human Resource Management,

Tsaam Gah Marceline, Marketing Expert,

Assouzo'o Benjamin Gerald, Chief of Service for Marketing,

Mfou'ou Jean Claude, in charge of accounts.

Appointed Director of CAMTEL in 2006, David Nkotto Emane is accused by the auditors of the Supreme State Audit and the National Anti corruption Commission between 2010 and 2015, for financial lapses in the management of public funds. For example, in a special report that was published in 2016, the Supreme state Audit mentioned the absence of transparency in the management of public funds at CAMTEL.

Why won't such misappropriation of funds be so common place when officials aren't strictly controlled or rigorously audited by an external auditing Firm? Why won't this happen when state corporations aren't run by experts aimed at generating profits as well as auto funding themselves?

Why won't such occurrence be common place when state gangsters are obliged to forfeit their illicit wealth and mansions, as s deterent to other would be state thieves?

This poor management of CAMTEL has caused enormous financial losses to this Mobile Telephone Company worth billions of francs. It's for embezzlement reasons that Judicial investigation has been formerly been lodged against him by the Special Criminal Court.