Man in court for abuse of confidence

Alexandre Ngouma appeared before the Yaounde Court of First Instance on October 22, 2014, for fraudulently obtaining FCFA 15 million.

The Yaounde Court of First Instance has begun hearing on the case pitting Ekani Menounga, owner of a Yaounde-based company, EGCOTRAP, and Alexandre Ngouma.

Alexandre Ngouma, it is alleged, fraudulently obtained FCFA 15 million belonging to EGCOTRAP Company.

Reports say, following a decision by the Supreme Court, the National Civil Engineering Company, MATGENIE was supposed to pay EGCOTRAP the sum of over FCFA 61.8 million in 2001.

The owner of the company, Ekani Menounga said MATGENIE had earlier paid FCFA 24 million and FCFA 37.8 million was left. He said in 2013, Alexandre Ngouma, a businessman and Messomo Cyr, a worker at the Supreme State Audit Office both promised that they will help him recover his remaining money from MATGENIE.

In 2013, they asked him to sign an authorisation to enable them carry out the procedures. He did so and they went ahead but made a bill without his knowledge to follow up the money in Mategenie.

Apart from that, they faked Ekani Menounga’s signature and signed an agreement without his knowledge.

Ngouma and Messomo went to court and certified the document. They only went back to see Ekani when they were asked to pay FCFA 750,000 so that the FCFA 37.8 million could be paid two days later.

Ekani Menounga said he paid the money but after two days the money was not coming. After that, Ngouma and Messomo brought him the report from the court which stated that a meeting was held between Matgenie, the Supreme State Audit Office and the lawyer of Matgenie.

According to the report, they saw that MATGENIE owed EGCOTRAP FCFA 37.8 and they have paid the money with bill Number 00879685 in January 2013. Ngouma and Messomo told him that they paid FCFA 4 million to the middleman of Matgenie, FCFA 1 million to the lawyer and FCFA 1 million to the Sheriff Bailiff. The remaining FCFA 4 million is what was supposed to be shared between Ekani, Ngouma and Messomo.

When Ekani Menounga asked for the photocopy of the bill that was paid to the treasury, Messomo and co insulted him. He then went to Mategenie and he was informed that Ngouma Alexandre had received FCFA 15 million and FCFA 22 million was left. He was however paid the FCFA 22 million.

In May 2014 he took the matter to court so that the remaining FCFA 15 million will be paid. Ngouma is presently in detention at the Kondengui Central Prison in Yaounde.