Should we expect a new series of arrests in connection with the anti-corruption operation "Sparrowhawk"? After the cabinet reshuffle, rumors are rife, prompting Jean-Marie Atangana Mebara, detained since 2012, to speak from his cell.
Basile Atangana Kouna, former Minister of Water and Energy, Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o, former Minister of Transport, Louis Ayina Ohandja, former director at the University of Douala. The three names are widely cited as likely future charged in Operation Sparrowhawk, broad anti-corruption net launched in 2006 by the head of state, Paul Biya.
For the moment, none of them has yet been officially worried. But the rumors are going well. And the walls of Kondengui prison in Yaoundé did not stop them. Inside, in the cell he has occupied since 2012, Jean-Marie Atangana Mebara, the former secretary-general of the presidency, did not fail to listen to him. He even reacted, with a humor that everyone will not appreciate.
In a text released Wednesday, March 14, the former secretary general of the presidency, himself sentenced in connection with Sparrowhawk for embezzlement of public funds, offered his advice "to you who have reason to believe that you are in the viewfinder, or simply that you will one day be in the viewfinder of the "Sparrowhawk" operation.
"Practice using Turkish toilets"
"Here are some infos, some things that are good to know. These are unimportant things when you're free, "Atangana Mebara writes. "From the first rumors about the sending of the services of the superior control of the State inquire with executives of these services. Do not ask the ministers. As everyone is afraid of losing their morocco, none will give you the right information. The brave and honest will tell you that they are bound by an obligation of reserve, the falots will tell you they are not aware, "he continues.
And the prisoner of Kondegui to give his advice: "to make some friends among the advisers of the presidency", "to put in order your files [and] to make safe any document which you could need a day ", do a" health check "," receive or update essential vaccines "," put in order your financial situation"," exercise to sleep in cribs ", learn" to sleep in a room, with six or seven people"," practice using Turkish-style toilets "," practicing abstinence ", doing" a ride in a morgue, to see bodies carried away "...
A "labyrinth of humiliation and dishonor"
"Prepare to cross the gate of the labyrinth of humiliation and dishonor," warns Jean-Marie Atangana Mebara, who tells his own story, in the form of a warning. Insalubrity, noise, suspicion, hatred, lack of sleep and hygiene, contagious diseases, "dirty smells of dirty toilets" or "of people who took their last shower a few weeks before"..
The former collaborator of Paul Biya fallen out of favor paints a portrait that disturbs. That of an unhealthy prison, for the powerful old ones as for all the others, and of a "clean hands" operation of which many doubt equity. He finally warns: "To you who think you have tried, all your career during, to be a servant of the State, you who think to benefit from a immunity for life, this could be useful for you one day".
Source: Jeuneafrique.com