Cameroon's state fuel depot says the police owe 21 billion CFA francs for fuel taken on presidential instruction, and it will not deliver more until the volumes are returned. A special court has sent about 40 people to Kondengui prison over the affair.
Cameroon's water and energy minister has written to the national police chief about fuel losses caused by trafficking in the force, as the finance minister puts monthly pump-price support at 57 billion FCFA.
A divisional police commissioner was handed to the Special Criminal Court special prosecutor's office over a fuel embezzlement investigation at the national police delegation, as the state oil company said the delegation's fuel withdrawals exhausted its strategic reserves.