Anti-graft War: Ntui Mayor, Council Treasurer In Prison Custody

Jérôme Ondobo Mono and Zacharie Amoka Amoka Awono are accused of embezzling 105 million FCFA.

Government’s anti-graft drive continued on Friday, September 9, 2016, when an Examining Magistrate with the Yaounde-based Special Criminal Court, SCC, ordered Jérôme Ondobo Mono, the Mayor of Ntui Council in Mbam and Kim Division of the Centre Region, to be remanded in custody at the Kondengui, Yaounde Maximum Security Prison. Also detained alongside Ondobo is Zacharie Amoka Amoka Awono, the Ntui Council Treasurer. The two are accused of embezzling 105 million FCFA reportedly between 2007 and 2012.

Sources at Kondengui Prison confirmed to Cameroon Tribune yesterday, September 13, 2016, that the two officials indeed arrived in the jail on September 9, 2016, on the basis of a remand warrant signed by a judge of the SCC. According to sources in Ntui, the Mayor and the Council Treasurer are said to be held on three counts of failure to pay in National Social Insurance Fund dues deducted from workers’ wages, failing to execute a water supply project and mishandling funds intended for the pay...