The full reaction of the Honorable MP Sdf on the Glencore case after the referral to the Cameroonian courts by the Bâtonnier Me Akere Muna.
“Nothing justifies the deafening silence of the State of Cameroon since the outbreak of the Glencore scandal. It is incomprehensible that Cameroon refused to be a civil party like other countries which even obtained damages! Cameroonians, however, have the right to know what has happened to the management of their resources of which they are at least theoretically the co-owners and what damages have been suffered on the Cameroonian side, under the 2018 law on the code of transparency and good governance in the management of public finances.
I give my full support to the Bâtonnier Akere Muna who has always been among the pioneers in the fight against corruption and embezzlement of public funds in our country. He is a man who has the courage of his convictions. It is in his role, as a citizen and an actor in civil society, to raise public awareness of this monstrous scandal which exposes the mafia erected as a method of government in the management of our oil resources.
By his decision to translate Glencore and his accomplices in the courts of Cameroon, he lays bare the refusal of our leaders to defend the rights of the State of Cameroon, the most curious being that Glencore pleaded guilty in the courts of other countries having suffered heavy damages and these countries were able to obtain redress.
Cameroonian justice should have seized itself as soon as the case started, especially after the confessions of the leaders of this multinational who named Cameroon as one of the countries victims of their nauseating practices. Let’s hope that with its referral by the Bâtonnier Akere Muna, it will move so that the truth triumphs over this affair which highlights the inadmissible negligence and opacity in the management of our mining resources. Cameroonian justice is playing its credibility in this case. This justice must be rendered in the name of the people as stipulated in the Constitution. Any prevarication about this case will forever discredit the magistrates of the courts seized”.
