Biya orders payment of bonuses to striking female basketball players

President Paul Biya as usual has intervened to end the crisis created at Hotel Mont Febe by the Cameroon female basketball team over unpaid bonuses. The players who blatantly refused to leave the hotel until their participation fees for the just ended African Cup of Nation Basketball tournament were paid, have now received 15 million francs CFA each. A sister publication Cameroun-info.net reported earlier today that the CPDM National Chairman and Head of State gave standing orders to Prime Minister Yang Philemon to make the disbursements. 

Correspondingly, Philemon Yang summoned the ministers of Finance and Sports and Physical Education and gave directives for the implementation of the presidential instruction. This was the chain of events before the money got to the players who were still at the hotel after the departures of Ramses Lonlack and Miesha Blackshear- both playing their basketball in the USA. The girls had initially refused to accept the two million and then five million CFA francs offered them by officials of the Ministry of Sports and the Cameroon Basketball Federation.