Monday 16 November 2015

After Consupe inspectors came calling:

Ama Tutu Muna en route to Kondengui?
She is alleged to have left the ministry of Arts and Culture in financial paralysis and is currently being probed by the new minister of Supreme State Audit Rose Mbah Acha Fomundam

By Tanyi Kenneth Musa in Younde
Ama Tutu Muna
The months ahead do not seem to augur well for Ama Tutu Muna, the former minister of Arts and Culture. After serving in that ministry for seven uninterrupted years, she may just be the first Anglophone lady to be thrown into jail in the famous Operation Sparrowhawk meant to punish embezzlers of public funds.
    If the daughter of former National Assembly president Solomon Tandeng Muna is in the eye of the storm today, it is because her successor Narcisse Mouelle Kombi has found out that not only is the ministry of Arts and Culture (MINAC) heavily indebted, her management of the special fund for the support of cultural activities was grossly wanting.
    The Median was informed that the new minister has inherited a debt of 712 million FCFA, being an amount MINAC owes its creditors who want to be paid the money without any further delay. In addition, the special fund mentioned above for the last financial year, to the tune of 1 096 billion FCFA, was either spent on trivialities or on fictitious projects.

    Talking about the fund, it was created by presidential decree n° 2001/389 of 5 December 2001 thanks to the negotiating skills and personal relationship with the Head of State of former Culture minister Ferdinand Leopold Oyono. Renewed with 1 billion FCFA every year, it is meant to support the creation, production, and promotion of arts; to be given as aid to different artists, organizers of events such as festivals, literary productions, musical albums; amongst other things.
    Upon noticing the financial paralysis which MINAC is suffering from, Minister Mouelle Kombi immediately invited the ministry of Finance for auditing. And when the President of the Republic was notified of the scandalous situation, he did not delay to assign the new minister of Supreme State Audit Rose Mbah Acha Fomundam to investigate her sister from the North West region.
    The audit, we were told, does not only have to do with Ama Muna’s alleged mismanagement of funds in the last year of her tenure of office but rather for all the seven years that she spent at the ministry of Culture and later MINAC.      

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