Jean Jacques Ndoudoumou Ferried To Kondengui?

- Iya Mohamed’s Fate At SODECOTON Uncertain

by Yussuf Sariki

the whereabouts of Jean Jacques Ndoudoumou has been unknown since last week that he was sacked and replaced. In January last year (2011), Jean Jacques Ndoudoumou was one of the chiefs of the South Region, to bestow on President Paul Biya, the title Nngom-Ngi (superscale traditional lord). This was during the event of the Agro pastoral show in Ebolowa. To have thought that he had ‘pocketed’ President Paul Biya was less so. Last June 11, 2012, the Budgetary and Disciplinary Counsel of the Supreme State Audit (CONSUPE), found Jean Jacques Ndoudoumou, Director of the Regulatory Agency of Public Contracts, ARMP, wanting of some 64 million FCFA. CONSUPE came out with a list of other defaulters, including Jean Tabi Manga (Ex-Rector of the University of Yaounde II at Soa) and Iya Mohamed, GM of SODECOTON.

Last week Paul Biya’s presidential decree No. 2012/496 of October 31, 2012 relieved Ndoudoumou. Biya appointed Ngo Joseph, a cadre at the Prime Minister’s office to succeed him. To political analysts, the move was welcomed given that it pulsated with President Biya’s wish to fight corruption in Cameroon.

Accordingly, given that Ndoudoumou’s file was x-rayed alongside with that of Jean Tabi Manga, his dismissal was thus expected. Worthy to note, that Jean Tabi Manga had been fired as Rector of the University of Yaounde II (Soa), last June 29. He was replaced by Oumarou Bouba; just as Bruno Bekolo Ebe, Rector of the University of Douala.

In the same light, there have been growing expectations that Iya Mohamed, the General Manager of the Cotton Development Corporation SODECOTON, would be axed too. Iya Mohamed’s name featured on same investigative proble like Ndoudoumou. Iya Mohamed was found wanting in his management of SODECOTON between 2005 - 2010.

Another of the top government functionary, whose management was questioned by CONSUPE was Lifanda Samuel, ex-government delegate of the defunct Limbe Urban council. His management between 2004 and 2008 was questioned. Lifanda is today out of the Limbe city council, yet his misdeeds still hunt him.

Following President Biya’s decree last week, flushing out Ndoudoumou, expectations are high that those who were probed on same roll as him would be axed too, Iya Mohamed’s fate being very precarious.