Tombi à Roko to appear before Special Criminal Court today

The current Secretary General of the Cameroon Football Federation, FECAFOOT, Tombi à Roko has been summoned to appear before the Special Criminal Court, SCC today Monday, January 26. Our sources say Tombi would be answering questions on two cases relating to embezzlement.

The first, we gathered is about the management of funds put at the disposal of the federation by the state of Cameroon and the second, the management of Goal project funds disbursed by Qatar’s oil mogul, Mohammed Bin Hammam.


Back in 1999, then President of Asian Football Federation and Director General of GOAL project, Bin Hammam allegedly paid the sum of 200.000 dollars to FECAFOOT so that the federation would lend support to Qatar’s bid to host the 2022 World Cup.


But the money which was to be used in the construction of the FECAFOOT Technical Centre at Odza neighbourhood in Yaoundé was instead deposited in the private account of a FECAFOOT official.


The centre was earmarked to host three training podiums, a lodge for athletes, a restaurant, an administrative building and a multipurpose hall.

The entire project was estimated to cost 600 MFCFA. But since then only an uncompleted inadequate building is said to have been erected on the location. The project, officials say, has remained a crawling venture.


Last Monday, Tombi’s passport was seized by airport police at the Douala International Airport. An anonymous source who spoke to The Cameroon Journal said Tombi had already boarded the plane bound for Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, to watch the Africa Cup of Nations when the police emerged and ordered him out of it.


The seizure of the latter’s passport resulted to the immediate termination of his trip to Malabo.