In Cameroon, an endless controversy has been going on for almost a week around Luc Ayang, the irremovable president of the Economic and Social Council (CES), in office for 39 years. The latter, who wants to acquire a new residence, has personally signed a call for tenders for the construction of his future villa. Announced cost: two billion CFA francs.
With our correspondent in Yaoundé, Polycarp Essomba
The scandal erupted with the dissemination on social networks of documents announcing the financing from public funds of two projects.
The first consists of a call for tenders for phase two of the construction of a company residence for the cost of two billion FCFA. The second is the acquisition of a ceremonial vehicle for a cost of 120 million for one and the same beneficiary, the president of the Economic and Social Council: Ayang Luc, fifth personality in the protocol order of the country.
It was enough to trigger a wave of indignation around these expenses deemed ” extravagant ” And ” lavish “. Intriguing expenses in the eyes of those who criticize them and who question their relevance with regard to the little-known role of this institution. They consider the Economic and Social Council “ useless, decorative and moribund “. How, then, can such a mismanagement be justified in a country that is sorely lacking in basic infrastructure?, wonders, for example, the former elected homeless person Jean Robert Wafo. “They are no longer afraid of anything. They are no longer ashamed, there is no limit,” journalist Paul Mahel was indignant in a post on his Facebook page. A real torrent of disapproval that goes from social networks to classic media. But above all a hell of a blow of pressure on the government from which we now expect to know whether it is maintaining these announced expenditures or not.