Update: Earlier today Thierry Atangana and Dr. Titus Edzoa, were each sentenced to an additional 20 years in prison for virtually the same crimes that they had already served 15 years.
French businessman Michel Thierry Atangana has spent the past 15 years behind bars in Cameroon. In 1997 he was accused of embezzling public funds, put on trial without a lawyer and sentenced to 15 years in jail.
A court in the capital Yaoundé will soon decide if he can walk out of prison a free man or remain in his cell for another 15 years. For Mr Atangana’s family, lawyer and many observers of Cameroonian politics, both his trials were purely political.
Source: France 24
We only hear of lenghty prison terms and nothing about stolen monies being recovered.All these at the detriment of the common man moreso because the men in uniforms would not allow them to manage the meagre they have.Anti-corruption favours the government more than the man in the street.Stop the men in uniforms and white collers dubes from extorting and exploiting the common man as an impetus to the anti-corruption drive.
Posted by: Simplice | October 05, 2012 at 05:18 AM
Double jeopardy bull
Posted by: compina | December 05, 2012 at 08:12 PM