Corruption in Cameroon: The Lake Nyos Extravaganza

By Ntemfac Ofege

The 1986 Lake Nyos gas disaster and its management is just one vista of the endemic corruption in the Cameroon system peopled as it is with “croque-morts” and grave robbers. When Lake Nyos happened the world reacted spontaneously. It is estimated that beyond the circa 100 Billion FCFA that the government of Cameroon received from all over the world in cash, about that same amount worth of tents, blankets, landrovers, food, etc. came in from all over the world for the victims. The money and gifts were speedily stolen.

Army generals are today parading some of the land rovers, tents, and blankets that they stole from the Lake Nyos. Money pledged to the survivors for their tents, houses and fees has since been stolen. Mr. Biya never thought it worthwhile to use part of the circa 100 Billion that he received to build a monument for the Lake Nyos victims. Neither did the president consider it worthwhile to tar the less than 75 kms road to Wum in the Nyos precinct. Today the survivors of the lake Nyos explosion are living in abject poverty and misery.

Fai Yengo Francis, the current governor of the Centre province, who was the Senior Divisional Officer for Wum at the time must have broken into a cold sweat when an edition of a radio Bamenda programme “Crossfire” to come tell the world what he did with the aid given to the Mbororo survivors of Lake Nyos.

Onetime Jean-Marcel Mengueme, the then Minister of Territorial Administration, who was fired because of the gross mismanagement of the Lake Nyos funds, came out of his abode and shot a live bullet into the air when some “hooligans” stood outside his house at night and bawled “Mengueme, Lake Nyos! Mengueme, Lake Nyos!” Never mind that those “hooligans” were a certain Charly Ndi-Chia and his crony Ntemfac Ofege, both of them journalists.

Mr. Biya has also not reacted to a Denis Sassou Nguessou interview published in a San Francisco newspaper suggesting that the Lake Nyos gas explosion was an Israeli thermonuclear device. Mr. Sassou Nguessou said in that interview that he was approached by the Israeli to test the device in his country and he said no. Mr. Biya apparently accepted the indecent proposition.

The arrival in Cameroon of the then Israeli Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, with a fully-equipped hospital plane, on a so-called State visit less than 48Hours after the Lake Nyos explosion, is very suspicious.

Actually, the Israelis remain Mr. Biya’s guardian angels. They not only train and equip his close guards (the presidential guard) but they also monitor events in Cameroon from their Mont Febe hideout and other locations in Yaounde.

Comments

[Tonyman]

A president sacrificing poor souls for money! His judgement is rapidly coming.

[PAOLO LAURENT]

THE FACT IS MOST CAMEROOONS AND THE WORLD
STILL BELIEVE THE LIE THAT ITS WAS A LAKE
EXPLOSION. INSTEAD OF A CRIMINAL ACT BY PAUL BIYA AGAINST ANGLOPHONES,WHOM HE CONSIDER SUB HUMANS, TO BE USE AS GUINEA
PIGS FOR A NEOTRON BOMBE TEST, IN OURLAND ,AND ON OUR PEOPLE. AND CHILDREN IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS ARE TODAY NOT EVEN TAUGHT THE FACT , THAT THIS WAS A
MAN MADE ACT BY PAUL BIYA,WITH THE ISREALIS.
SOME TIME IN THE 70S, FRANCE TESTED AN ATOMIC BOMB IN THE SAHARA, AND IT IS ESTIMATED THAT MORE THAN 6 MILLION PEOPLE DIED FROM THE AFTER EFFECT, ITS SHAMEFULL THAT BLACK MAN IS NEXT TO ANIMAL, SINCE HE NEVER YEARN FOR A HIGHER GOD, AND VIRTUE
INSTEAD WORSHIP VILLAGE BELIEF AND EARTHLLY
ORDER. AND MATERIAL. THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS INDEPENDENCE IS AN EXAMPLE.
AN LAKE NYOS IS A TEST CASE, HOW A GOVERNMENT CAN, SHADE THE TRUTH FROM ITS OWN CITIZENS AND TO THE WORLD.

[Uche Eze Nkatta Idika]

If truely, Mr. Biya allowed the testing of a bomb on persons he was out to be serving, then surely his nemesis will meet him before his death.

God Bless Cameroon

[Julius Fossung Esua]

I will not want to read any meaning into the visit of the Israeli PM jsut after the Lake Nyos "gas leak", but I have also had my doubts on the reason behind these people's death.

[ABS]

http://www.nyos.lv/?l=2&m=1&c=8&p=1
“… , trigger mechanism of the limnological catastrophes, who be happened in CAMEROON on lake "MONOUN" in 1984 and on lake "NYOS" in 1986 , was switched on by influence of the atmospheric precipitations in 1983.
Limnological catastrophes on lake "MONOUN" in 1984 and on lake "NYOS" in 1986, were caused by the instantaneous ejections of the gaseous carbon dioxide from the sediment stratums under the lake’s bottom.
The Degassing the waters of the lakes "NYOS" and "MONOUN" can not prevent from the repetition in lakes "NYOS" and "MONOUN" of the limnological catastrophes, similar to the catastrophes of 1984 and of 1986 , in which the trigger mechanism was switched on by the influence of the atmospheric precipitations.
Under influence of the atmospheric precipitation the trigger mechanism of the the limnological catastrophes in the lake "Nyos" and the "Monoun" , in any time may to be switched on and in a certain time hereon will happen of the limnological catastrophes.”

[NS]

http://www.nyos.lv/?l=2&m=1&c=8&p=1

THE DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCE OF THE REDUCTION INTO TWENTY METERS OF THE LEVEL OF THE WATER IN LAKE "NYOS" IN CAMEROON , WHICH ARE NOT TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN REPORT ABOUT ASSESSMENT OF THE DAM ON LAKE "NYOS" BY MISSION "Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit", WHO HAD VISITTED CAMEROON IN SEPTEMBER 2005.

The Reduction into 20 metres of the water level in the lake "Nyos" significantly magnifies probability of the mortal catastrophe in contrast with probability of the catastrophe in the natural conditions. The strengthening the existing dam (without reduction of the water level) on the lake "Nyos" does not magnify probability of the catastrophe.

[Rifani]

"Mr. Biya has also not reacted to a Denis Sassou Nguessou interview published in a San Francisco newspaper ... "

What San Francisco newspaper is being referred to here? What is the date of publication? Did the author read the interview himself or did he get it by word of mouth? This kind of reporting doesn't look professional.

[not neccessary]

What Mr Biya did, is called crime against humanity!!! i dont see why he should not be judgded for that..He is a murderer..I mean that is someone who steals hundreds of billions cfa as not enough, he still has to kill people to get money!!!