(Business in Cameroon) - The Cameroonian treasury is going to save, as from this year, a total of XAF26 billion on salary payments (pensions and other benefits, included) thanks to the findings of the physical counting operation carried out in 2018.

As a reminder, this operation intended to identify, in the State registry, all public officials being irregularly paid, after an unjustified absence, resignation or undeclared death. The counting found that 44,000 of the 310,786 officials had been identified as presumed fictitious. And a pre-litigation phase, which aimed to enable the suspended agents to be rehabilitated by presenting the required evidence, was launched on 26 October 2018 and ended on 4 January 2019.

Brice R. Modiam