Kamerwaves is getting reports of an Investigations under way by the Secretariat General of the Presidency of the Republic (SGPR) to determine any malicious attempts to derail the organization of the African Cup of Nations (CAN) 2016 to be hosted by Cameroon next month .
According to The Daily the Economy,the SGPR has been informed that bookmakers in the French capital of paris are doing everything possible for an ineffective hosting of the next CAN feminine in Yaounde in November 2016 and “Among the big bets are Cameroonians,”.
In its edition of Friday, September 30, 2016, the newspaper indicates that a worker was arrested at the construction site of the Omnisports stadium in Yaounde on the grounds of an attempt to sabotage ongoing work. “According to sources in the judicial police in Yaounde , he confessed he was paid 150 000 FCFA to cause a work slowdown,” alafnet.com gathered from the daily the Economy
The Presidency of the Republic under the supervision of the Secretary General of the Presidency , Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh then decided to take full control, management and auditing of all the preparations for the CAN 2016. All latecomers are thus suspected of participating in maneuvers to prevent the smooth organization of the competition.
Cameroon-Info.Net also reported that Last week the company charged with lawn construction in the municipal stadium of Buea was the subject serious questioning by the Judicial Police. After which the construction company had to make a firm commitment to complete the work on time. It had initially missed the period of planting grass on the lawn to be used for training during the CAN competitions.
” The slowdown of the preparation work for the CAN 2016 has incur extra expenses to the state of Cameroon.Bello Bouba Maigari, The Minister of Tourism estimates the costs of additional work at more than 4.7 billion CFA francs. While the Minister of Health, Andre Mama Fouda, got an additional 76 million FCFA and has also requested another unplanned budget of nearly $ 200 million FCFA. The Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, noted that the cost of transporting newly acquired equipment is 600 million FCFA and beg the indulgence of the Ministry of Finance to suspend this transaction related taxes
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