𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙞-𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙪𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙡𝙖𝙬: 𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙣, 𝘾𝙊𝙉𝘼𝘾’𝙨 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙪𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙞-𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙪𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 (𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙘) 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙧𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙪𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙢𝙡𝙮, 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧.

𝘽𝙮 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣

𝑰𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝑷𝒂𝒖𝒍 𝑩𝒊𝒚𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 11, 2006, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒊-𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒖𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 (𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒄). 𝑰𝒏 18 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒖𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒅𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒇, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 2023 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 114 𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑪𝑭𝑨 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒔.

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒖𝒑 109.4 𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑪𝑭𝑨 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒔 (+2,378.2%) 𝒊𝒏 𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 4.6 𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑪𝑭𝑨 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 2022. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒅𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 10.2 𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑪𝑭𝑨 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒔 𝒊𝒏 2019; 17 𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑪𝑭𝑨 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒔 𝒊𝒏 2020; 43.9 𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑪𝑭𝑨 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒔 𝒊𝒏 2022. 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑨𝑪 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑫𝒊𝒆𝒖𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒏é 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 “𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔, 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒖𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒄 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚”.

𝑭𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒖𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕. “𝑾𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊-𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒖𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒍𝒂𝒘,” 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒅𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑫𝒊𝒆𝒖𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒏é 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 2023 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒚, 𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 10 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔.

Invited on national television on September 26, 2021, Richard Fegue Ekani, then in charge of studies at CONAC, affirmed that the “document had since been transmitted to whom it may concern (meaning the President of the Republic). The bill was developed by the Ministry of Justice, CONAC and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

𝑶𝒃𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚, 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑨𝑪 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒎𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒍𝒂𝒘 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓. 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚, 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒖𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏. 𝑫𝒊𝒆𝒖𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒏é 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 26, 2024 𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒖𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 2023. “𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒄 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔…𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒎 𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅. 𝑰𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒆 (𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓’𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆) 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒆. 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒘𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒌 (𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓’𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆).”

(𝕆𝕦𝕣 𝕝𝕠𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟)