By Musa Isa
All eyes/ears would be focused in
Yaounde and Douala next week, on July 17 and 18, 2012
respectively. Firstly, the verdicts pertaining to the 15 year incarceration of
Titus Edzoa, former Secretary General at the Presidency would be unleashed.
Then the next day, July 18, at the Littoral Court of Appeal, the verdict of
Zaccheus Mungwi Forjindam would be brought to bare. It is believed that
whatever may become the verdicts, troops would be deployed at both court
premises.
Legal experts
hinted Chronicle last weekend that
Titus Edzoa’s release may by enigmatic; that despite serving a 15-year jail
term, found guilty of embezzlement of state funds, other charges await him.
The Mfoundi
high court, Chronicle has been told,
may not easily extricate him. Accordingly, Titus Edzoa may still be withheld
for other charges proffered against him.
For the case of
Zaccheus Mungwi Forjindam, former General Manager of the Cameroon Shipyard
Corporation (Chantier Naval - CNIC), Chronicle
gathered that his situation is obvious. According to a legal expert, except
Forjindam’s detention be transformed into political victimization, he is bound
to be released on July 18, 2012.
Proceedings at
the Littoral Court of Appeal, which Chronicle
has been on the beat, indicate Forjindam’s innocence. During the last hearing,
testimonies made by independent investigators showed how Forjindam was simply
being scape-goated.
Justice Minko
Minko is thus expected to pass his judgment on the Forjindam matter, based on
facts from supreme state auditors and an independent team assigned to dig-out
the CNIC file.
It is believed
that should Forjindam be ‘nailed’, it would not be as what happened at the
Wouri High Court, some 2 years ago. There, the court took cognizance of the
audit report of a private audit. It negated what supreme state auditors did, at
the request of President Paul Biya. Chronicle
is aware that while supreme state auditors cleared Forjindam of any
embezzlement/misappropriation charges, the High Court ruled differently.
Unlike the High
Court ruling, that slammed Forjindam a 12 year jail sentence, with his property
seized, observers hold that the Appeal
Court ruling would be otherwise.
Forjindam may
after July 18 become a free man. Yet, what would become of his status, many
have questioned. (Affair a suivre…)
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