In
an interview aired recently during the 7am primetime newscast of the regional
service of the Cameroon Radio Television (Crtv) Northwest, the Mezam divisional
delegate of housing and urban development MR Asonfack Roger Kamgmer while
responding to a question bearing on recent claims by Hotel
Industries and Tourism Employers SYNDICATE (SPIHT) that his delegation was into
unlawful and arbitrary collection of the colossal sum of twelve thousand francs
(12000FCFA) acknowledged that his delegation has no car and thus can collect
money to dispatch a team from his office for field work.
According
to Hotel Industries and Tourism Employers SYNDICATE (SPIHT) justifying with a
price list signed by the government delegate to the Bamenda City council Ndumu
Vincent Nji, the twelve thousand francs requested by the said delegation “for
the issuance of town planning certificate in the process of a building permit
is illegal, thus an aspect of corruption”.
According
to the president of SPIHT Awah Cletus Fobuzi, the regional service of the state
own media CRTV Bamenda should be blamed for stifling President Biya’s fight
against Corruption. Awah Cletus elaborately explained this saying that when he
established with even video evidence that corruption was perpetrated at the
delegation of housing, he made an announcement in his capacity as the president
of SPIHT denouncing the above cited act which CRTV refused reading and instead
went to interview the delegate who normally should refute the allegation.
It
has however been reviled that the twelve thousand francs is shared by some
individuals involved in the issuance of the said certificate. Some of them who
confined to us say they know only of ten thousand francs meaning the illegal
twelve thousand collected has another illegal two thousand.
We
are staying on the beat.