This is the substance of the decision of the Paris court which condemns the State of Cameroon. There is also the march against load shedding, floods, and the G 25.
This is the dispute over the construction of the 2 nd Bridge over the Wouri and the Bamenda-Babadjou road between the State of Cameroon and the French public works company. According to the EcoMatin newspaper, “Sogea Saton is claiming 20 billion from Cameroon at the Paris court”. During a videoconference exchange held on March 20 between the Minister of Public Works (Mintp), Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, and Vincent Grandeau, new Director of the Sogea Satom Cameroon agency, it was revealed that this subsidiary of the French Sogea , dragged the State of Cameroon before the French Justice and claims at least 20.5 billion CFA francs.
This within the framework of the realization of the works of the 2nd bridge on the Wouri (2013-2017), in the economic capital of Cameroon, the construction project of the Babadjou-Babadjou road. According to the company, this envelope represents the losses suffered during the works, following the attack on its equipment by separatist militants, who are demanding the independence of the two English-speaking regions of the country (North-West and South-West). But, Minister Nganou Djoumessi confided in an interview published in the Cameroon Tribune newspaper in June 2022 that after examination, a sum of 1.5 billion CFA francs was paid to this construction company, which continues to contest the envelope to this day.
Regarding load shedding, the Minister “Eloundou Essomba accuses Eneo of non-compliance with its contractual obligations”. The march against the power cuts organized by Cabral Libii certainly did not meet with the expected success in terms of mobilization. But the PCRN leader’s concern is also shared within the government, specifically by Gaston Eloundou. Essomba who found in Eneo the ideal culprit. For the Minee and its services, the subsidiary 51% owned by the British Assets fund is largely accountable for this state of affairs, for having defaulted on its contractual obligations.
The daily newspaper Le Jour returns to the “250 homeless families after the floods in Buea”. 72 hours after the floods following torrential rains at the top of Mount Cameroon, the demolitions continue. The disaster killed two people and caused extensive material damage amounting to hundreds of millions of CFA francs.
However, the daily Cameroon Tribune resumes to announce “The government alongside the victims”. On the instructions of the President of the Republic, the Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji, made a field visit yesterday to bring comfort to the families affected by the heavy rains that occurred last week. The balance sheet so far shows two dead, several wounded taken care of in particular at the Buea Regional Hospital and significant material damage.
On the political level, Première Heure speaks of the G25 as “The octopus and its tentacles”. The octopus taken in our context is this sprawling organization which has developed in recent years a project of grabbing power, either by force, therefore an extra-constitutional way, or by federation of all the political, military and media forces involved. . Having at its head the one that the people now designate as the punk man, it kills and does not joke. The octopus recruits everywhere and crushes everything in its path.
