Less than a week after being disembarked from Sonara, the man found work.
At the end of an extraordinary board of directors meeting held on February 15, 2024, Jean Paul Simo Njonou was appointed general manager of the Cameroon oil transportation company (Cotco). Replacing Harouna Bako who also replaced him at the head of the National Refining Company (Sonara) on February 9. Putting an end to speculation about the magistrate’s successor. Names had already started to circulate but Paul Biya decided to change position for position. A simple job swap.
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The time of scarcity will therefore not have lasted for Jean who Simo Njonou. The man who was disembarked from the Sonara a few days after the revaluation of fuel prices was seen as the scapegoat in the crisis born from this increase in the prices of super and diesel. But the man removed from the management of this structure whose modernization work is struggling to advance, has instead benefited from the trust of Paul Biya to manage another company worthy of interest. Cotco is the company that manages the Cameroonian part of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline.