Albatross Saga: Inoni and Mebara to appear at the Yaounde Supreme Court

Forty months after former Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni and former Secretary General at the Presidency Jean Marie Atangana Mebara were each slammed 20 years by the Special Criminal Court for misdeeds in the Camair affair, the two ex regime barons are due to appear this time at the Supreme Court.

The counsels for the two personalities received the information which placed June 13 is the date their respective clients will appear in court for what might be a push to revoke the sentence. They were accused of embezzling 1.7billion francs CFA and sentenced in October 2013.

Though the laws governing the Special Criminal Court gives 6 months for an appeal to be made after a pronouncement, it has taken close to 4 years for the Supreme Court to finally revive the case. We gathered from close sources that some officials at the court had provocatively delayed the file but the reason for this turnaround is still a mystery, though commentators suspect the Head of state might on the verge of granting a possible clemency to his former PM as a move towards appeasing angry Anglophones. We however cannot confirm this .

Inoni and Mebara who are incarcerated have on many occasions denied all the charges insisting that they are being held for other motives than stealing from the state purse.