The Southern Regional Council will pay 60 million FCFA over its 2022 investment budget for the purchase and installation of curtains in the offices of its managers.The national call for tenders opened in emergency procedure, published on the website of the Public Procurement Regulatory Agency (ARMP), is the subject of strong criticism on social networks, in particular Twitter and Facebook."The money from our taxes!We press the citizen as an orange and then squander public funds in trivialities ”;"Curtains is a code for something else or just these fabrics that are used to soften the light in a room?Even go see the famous building to dress, a two floors ”;How do you buy Curtains of 10 million FCFA?»;"I say that these are metallic curtains," write Internet users on Twitter.
Our attempts in order to obtain the contours of this market after officials of this institution were in vain.It should be noted that for their installation, the regional councils set up at the end of 2020 each received an envelope of 3 billion in 2021, an overall amount of 30 billion FCFA.We should be in the same range in 2022.This is not the first time that a market relating to the purchase of curtains has been controversial in Cameroon.Last year, there was a lifting of shields in opinion to denounce a call for tenders published by the same regulatory agency for public procurement, relating to the purchase of curtains intended for the office of the Minister of theScientific research and innovation (Minresi), Madeleine Tchuinte.SERVICE AMOUNT: 15 million FCFA.
Jean Omer Eyango
