Yaounde: Former Director General of the Yaounde University Teaching Hospital to face corruption charges

Professor Maurice Nkam, former director general of the University Teaching Hospital in Yaounde sacked from his post on September 28, 2015 by a presidential decree is now wanted at the Special Criminal Court over allegations of corruption. The former director of the University Teaching Hospital managed nearly 70 billion CFA francs in the last 15 years, with a miscellaneous budget of 30 million per year and reportedly left the health establishment with an estimated debt amounting to 3. 021. 859. 032 FCFA.

Prosecutors at the Special Criminal Court in Yaounde have maintained that the former head of the University Teaching Hospital committed a number of deliberate management errors, including the misuse of a 50 million FCFA arrears payments related to advancements whose initial amount was 298 million.