Opinion: Paul Biya Stadium Now Epitomizes Cameroon’s Endemic Corruption.
The stadium is now in doubt for 2022 AFCON as the new Canadian company which was handed the contract to finish the Olembe stadium is looking for 17 billion to complete the job. MAGIL says money for the stadium has dried-up and work cannot continue. Reports from French media outlets say workers had been asked […] The post Opinion: Paul Biya Stadium Now Epitomizes Cameroon’s Endemic Corruption. appeared first on TeboPost.
The stadium is now in doubt for 2022 AFCON as the new Canadian company which was handed the contract to finish the Olembe stadium is looking for 17 billion to complete the job.
MAGIL says money for the stadium has dried-up and work cannot continue. Reports from French media outlets say workers had been asked to go home and construction work has stopped.
The 60, 000 capacity Paul Biya’s stadium is now a symbol of Cameron’s endemic corruption.
It should be noted that the Stadium which costs more than three times the price of similar stadia elsewhere has experienced multiple setbacks due to fraud.
But perhaps, what is even more painful is the fact that the stadium was just one of the architectures in the envisaged package of a sports complex promised by the government to Cameroonians.
The initial project was to build a sports complex that included the 60, 000 capacity stadium, a three-star hotel, basket ball court, multiple training grounds, Olympic size swimming pools, and other sporting facilities.
Unfortunately, the money has since been disbursed and yet embezzled by some state officials and now authorities are talking about just the stadium which they can’t even complete due to lack of funds.
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