Gov’t restless as clandestine cocoa export to Nigeria stripping State of billions!.

It is a situation that has been blamed on local administrative and security officers said to be working in complicity with those engage in the illegal practice.

The Guardian Post has it on good authority that, the distress signals from the alarming situation was the focus of an inter-ministerial meeting at the Ministry of Trade in Yaounde, on Tuesday June 13.

The meeting which was also attended by some top security and defense officials was chaired by Trade Minister, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana. Officials from the Ministries of Trade, Finance, and Territorial Administration are said to have taken part in the meeting. The Customs Department and some actors in the cocoa chain are also reported to have been in attendance.

The situation, investigations reveal, had reached a level where the existence of key local processing and exporting companies are seriously threatened as well as government revenue collection services. This necessitated the summoning of this meeting.

Local administrators, security working against the state?

Accusing fingers are now pointed at local administrative authorities and security officers for failing to implement instructions from different government ministers. 

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