The wise mix to better fight corruption is 70% prevention and 30% repression
Called to produce an annual report on the state of the fight against corruption in Cameroon, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (CONAC), presents the 10th report, a real barometer of the fight against this scourge in our country, on Thursday, December 17 2020 in Yaoundé. The 2019 report shows that the fight against corruption is stepping up and the results are palpable. In 2018, CONAC recorded 23,048 denunciations of acts of corruption against 482 similar cases in 2010. Between 2011 and 2017, the cumulative financial gains thanks to CONAC's investigations were 1652.5 billion CFA francs. In 2013, more than 8 billion CFA francs were recovered in the mobile telephony sector and fraudulent transfers and thanks to alerts, the state coffers were protected from a siphoning of 34.5 billion CFA francs (compensation for the construction of the Port of Kribi, construction of the Ayos-Bonis road, etc.), etc. In Cameroon, corruption has ceased to be a taboo thanks to CONAC's preventive actions on the ground and repressive measures in collaboration with many other institutional actors such as the Audit Chamber of the Supreme Court, the Higher State Control, the National Agency for Financial Investigation (ANIF), the Special Criminal Court (TCS), etc. The Rev. Dr Dieudonné Massi Gams, president of CONAC rightly points out that the wise dosage to better fight corruption is 70% prevention and 30% repression.
