Innovations In Tackling Corruption: CONAC’s Proximity Approach Lauded

Day three of the ongoing 16th Commonwealth Regional Conference of Anti- Corruption Agencies in Africa was marked yesterday May 6, 2026 by several expert insights and country reports on innovative activities carried out since the meeting of Cape Town in 2025, with the National Anti- Corruption Commission of Cameroon, CONAC, opening the afternoon series. The Commission’s voice was Irene Morikang Tche, Head of the Prevention and Communication Unit, who took to the rostrum on behalf of the Chairman of the Commission. The flag ship activities of CONAC highlighted include Anti- Corruption Clinics which entail the temporal relocation of the Commission’s reporting facilities to a locality where denunciations are received, on-thespot investigations carried out and suspects arrested. During the period concerned, two Anti- Corruption clinics were organised in the towns of Ngaoundere and Douala with 180 files processed and 23 persons caught in the act of corruption and other related offences such as bribery, forgery and abuse of power, arrested and currently under prosecution. Similarly, Mrs Irene Morikang Tche highlighted the operation conducted in September 2025 to halt the illegal sale of subsidised kerosene for domestic consumption at filling stations to businesses. In effect, the government puts in some FCFA 420 for every litre sold at FCFA 350 per litre to households and limits each purchase to 10 litres. At the end of the twoday operation in Yaounde and its environs, with investigations in 46 filling stations, seven persons caught “red-handed” in the act of corruption were sent to face the heavy arm of the law, seven filling stations sealed and over 60 million FCFA recovered and deposited in the State treasury. The market regulation intervention on the sale of Women’s Day Fabric in February, 2026, was also presented as a success story. Investigations on the artificial scarcity of the fabric, price inflatio...