Did PM block Prefectoral appointments by Emmanuel Sadi?

After the appointment of new regional governors on October 23, 2015, the Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation (MINATD), René Emmanuel Sadi, reportedly proposed a swing of “great movement in the prefecture,” with “consultation” in the Prime ministry.

This is according to the daily La Nouvelle Expression, Wednesday, January 27, 2016, edition.

But according to sources of the newspaper, it seems that things came to a halt by Philemon Yang.

The prime minister, meanwhile, had already firmly requested all government officials, to immediately release all agents who have reached retirement age. And we understand that “the list of Sadi included an impressive contingent of Senior Divisional officers(SDO’S) who have already been called to claim their pension rights,” said the newspaper.

This was, so far, the state of affairs that justified the blocking of the MINATD initiative.

At the Ministry of Territorial Administration, this option was justified by the fact that prefectural appointment cannot just be made ahead of the presidential election which is due and is an important officially scheduled election for 2018.

And in the opinion of a senior official contacted by La Nouvelle Expression, “it is obvious that they actually benefit from an extension of, at least, two years. That is if the argument put forward by the Minister of Territorial Administration were to go ahead."

Sources informed that the main argument of those who argue for replacement at the prefectural is that all these retirees go back to Marafa era.

The former Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic is in prison for “intellectual complicity” of misappropriation of public funds and a mere mention of his name still shudder Yaounde.

According to the newspaper, René Emmanuel Sadi did not get favour from both at prime ministry and at the Presidency of the Republic.