Misappropriation of Public Funds : Judgements Of Specialised Section of Supreme Court Published

Emmanuel Ndjere, former President of the Special Criminal Court and currently General Counsel at the Supreme Court has published an over 3,000 pages of a compendium of judgements rendered by the Specialised Section of the Supreme Court from 2013 to 2020. This concerns 96 judgements which indicate debts of more than FCFA 400 billion that have to be recovered in relation to the misappropriation of public funds.
The Specialised Section of the Supreme Court comes to add to the Special Criminal Court, Courts of First Instance as well as High Courts in matters of misappropriation of public funds. The final decisions of the other courts are subject to an appeal and the Specialised Section of the Supreme Court has the exclusive jurisdiction to hear appeals from the other courts.  Each of the six volumes of the compendium has specific cases and the judgements rendered. Some of the prominent cases are those of Titus Edzoa, Atangana Abega Michel Thierry, Njiemoum Isaac, Ondo Ndong Emmanuel, Siyam Siwe Alphonse, Yen Eyoum Lydienne Annette, Engoulou Henri, Abah Abah Polycarpe and Baleng Maah Célestin.
The author of the compendium states that, “Our previous writings on the works of the Special Criminal Court and the present text attest to the fact that the judgement debts since 2013 today stand at more than 400 billion FCFA.” As to the importance of the decisions reported, Emmanuel Ndjere said the authorities and services that have the competence to recover damages, fines and costs, could through these reported cases acquire writs of execution with which they might seize banks and other such institutions as the case may be and engage mortgages and other execution processes in order to recover an...