Almost four years since President Paul Biya’s gift of laptops to some 500,000 university students, the Special Criminal Court is now actively probing into an alleged disappearance of 400 laptops from the University of Yaoundé 1, Ngoa-Ekele.
At least 900 other laptops are also believed to have been illegally handed to non deserving individuals. According to reports, the mafia began when the Dean of the Faculty of Science decided to put the President of the Student Association of his faculty in charge of the distribution of the laptops.
The president of the student association is said to have abused the trust given to her by the Dean and indulged in illegal trafficking of the laptops.
Earlier investigations had led to the arrest of the Vice President of the Student Association, then subsequently the President.
The duo were later released and suspended from the University’s pedagogic activities. The president of the Student Association however contested her suspension by the University, causing the Rector of the University Maurice Aurélien Sosso to involve the Special Criminal Court into the affair.
A hearing on the issue took place last week at the Special Criminal Court in Yaoundé with more suspects cropping into the affair.
Amongst a host of personnel summoned at the special criminal court was Professor Roger Etoundi Atsa, who had made headlines when he claimed the 32 gigabyte capacity of the laptops in the old technology equaled 500 gigabytes in the new technology.
