(Business in Cameroon) - Following the cabinet reshuffle in March that saw the appointment of a new finance minister, many civil servants and State officials were expecting the wage advances system to be restored to better prepare for the school year which started September 3.

They will however not be satisfied as Louis Paul Motaze (photo), the new minister, decides to maintain the suspension of salary loans, which has become a means of public funds embezzlement. The minister also mentioned that beneficiaries had become accustomed to using internal complicities within the Ministry to delete proof of advance payments, regularly collected. This results into the non-payment of large amounts of advances, as the State no longer has any record of their existence, for monitoring repayments.

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