CONAC recovers several billions for the
state
By Rachel NtubeNgwese in Yaounde
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| DiedoneeMassi Gams |
The national anti-corruption commission
CONAC has revealed statistics of anti-corruption efforts carried out by CONAC
and partners in 2014.This was within the framework of the presentation of the
institution’s status report for 2014, and a collection of texts on the fight
against corruption and related offences in Cameroon.
According
to the 218 page report, the 2014 approach focused in the application of CONACs
two measure tools which consisted of the prevention, education, conditions
incentives and sanctions (PRECIS), and the rapid results initiative (RRI).
Presenting
the report in Yaoundé last week, the chairman of CONAC Rev. Dr. DieudonneMassi
Gams said CONAC received a total of 3064 denunciations in 2014. After serious
investigations, fabulous sums of money embezzled from some development services
and projects were revealed.
These
included double payments, unjustifiable expenditures unrelated to projects,
unjustified payment of mission allowances, irregular payment of bonuses, the
issuance of fake certificates and attestations, fake cheques to disaster
victims, unexecuted public contracts and VAT paid on project funds.
In
collaboration with other public audit institutions, several billions of francs
cfa were reimbursed into the state treasury.
The budgetary and financial disciplinary
board on its part imposed fines amounting to seven million francs to some
suspected administrative officials, and a cumulative debit balance of over 203
million francs from irregularities and management errors.
The
national agency for financial investigation (NAFI) also sent 60 cases to court
relating to financial flows amounting to over fcfa 128 billion. After the judgment
of 29 cases of misappropriation by the special criminal court, 46 persons were
sentenced and deprived of liberty, 29 others were acquitted while 3 benefited
from stay of proceedings after they refunded all the misappropriated sums, a
total amount of over seven billion francs was to be repaid into the state
treasury by persons convicted, while other movable and immovable properties
were seized.
In
the same respect, the Supreme Court issued 19 judgments. In cases involving the
Douala ports authority and the ministry of justice, it ordered the payment of
fcfa 3.2 billion into the state treasury. Also through CONAC’s efforts, a vast
network of fraudulent vehicle auction sale procedures was discovered at the
Douala port, and another network of fake conac agents and regional
representatives was equally discovered.
This
notwithstanding, DieudonneMassi Gams explained that the state suffered huge
loses from some identified cases of corruption and misappropriations. In the
ministry of basic education, the management of funds for the issuance of
certificates and attestations witnessed a disappearance of over fcfa 125
million.
Within
the framework of the Memve’ele hydro-electricity dam construction project, the state lost over fcfa 1,8 billion
resulting from the over evaluation of the project and compensation to
residents.
Also,
the management of the compensation funds for the Nsam disaster victims
registered an embezzlement amount of fcfa 14.7 billion.
The progressive expansion of the RRI, an authoritative behavior-changing
tool in 2014 brought about more satisfactory qualitative and quantitative
results.11 out of 38 ministries considerably got involved in the RRI
implementation while others have never considered its implementation since its
inception in 2011 notably the ministries of justice, defense, external
relations, communication, arts and culture, the supreme state audit and the
national delegation for national security.
For
the first time, CONAC also presented statistics on the implementation of the
2012 regional anti-corruption action plan according to which the overall
national execution rate stood at 27.3 percent with the North West and the
center regions occupying the first positions while the south and littoral came
last.
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