Biya receives the report on striking Minusca soldiers

The Commission of Inquiry which was set up after the outburst of temper has handed over a documented list of the Minusca striking soldiers to Paul Biya.

Mutations on January 13, 2016, reported that the Commission of Inquiry established December 4, 2015, by the Minister for the Presidency in charge of Defence (MINDEF) to shed light on the manifestation of military in Yaounde on September 9 last year, has just made its report to the MINDEF, Joseph Beti Assomo.

The former governor of the Littoral region, in turn, filed the document on the table of the Head of State.

It is now up to Paul Biya to decide whether to punish or not these peacekeepers who had partially halted traffic in some streets of the capital. The author of the article believes that the supreme chief of the army is going to agree that movement instigators will be punished.

According to Mutations, the report was labeled confidential. It read, "the strike leaders were ‘exploited’ on one hand and, on the other hand, the military hierarchy did not pay any attention the need to claims made by the Cameroonian peacekeepers. It also appears that the structures in charge of intelligence within the ‘state hierarchy' did not anticipate the movement that was growing in the Cameroonian army."

“The Journal offers some sanctions that could be taken under the Decree of 25 July 2001 on the special status of the body of active officers of the defense forces, in particular, Article 20. The statutory penalties for officers: the delisting of the advancement in step tables, grade, and competition for national orders, on retirement by setting non-activity radiation frames. However, it is not excluded that the instigators of the strike could be brought before the military court," wrote the independent daily.

For the record, Cameroonian soldiers (about 200), returning from a mission of peacekeeping in CAR, took to the streets of Yaounde on September 9. They demanded about 6 billion CFA francs representing their premiums. While indicating that the problem was at the level of the African Union, the Government had made the payments.