(Business in Cameroon) - At the end of an extraordinary Board meeting held on 8 February 2016 in Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon, Jean William Sollo (photo), Managing Director of Cameroon Water Utilities (Camwater), the national company in charge of potable water in the country, was dismissed. He was immediately replaced by Alphonse Roger Ondoa Akoa, who until then was General Secretary of the Communauté Urbaine de Douala.

This change at Camwater comes at a moment when entire areas of Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital, have been regularly deprived of running water for at least a month. However, since 2013, Camwater has been continuously announcing the end of the water ordeal in the capital, because of rehabilitation works on the Mefou and Akomnyada stations, which seem to never come to an end.

Before Jean William Sollo’s dismissal, the Cameroonian Head of State had, by presidential decree signed on 4 February 2016, ended the service of Bouba Ndengué as Managing Director of the Société de Développement et d’Exploitation des Productions Animales (Sodepa – Animal Production Development Company). He has been replaced by Denis Koulagna Koutou, until then General Secretary at the Ministry of Forests.

A few weeks ago, Sodepa was blacklisted during a butchers’ strike which deprived the economic capital of meat for two days. The butchers were accusing the heads of this public company managing the slaughterhouses of the country, of having unilaterally and without reason increased slaughter fees from FCfa 6,300 to 8,300.

BRM