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Hon. Bapooh Lipot Robert, Secretary General of the opposition Union of the Peoples of Cameroon known in French as l’Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) has been appointed Member of the Board of Directors of the country’s Debt Recovery Company, SRC.
According to decree no. 2020/242 signed by President Paul Biya Thursday, April 30, 2020, Lipot will be Member of the Board of Directors of the Debt Recovery Company for a three-year mandate renewable once.
The third class traditional ruler in the country’s Centre Region and former Member of the National Assembly had his ambition to renew his stay at the law-making house squashed when the Constitutional Council disqualified his list for the February 9, 2020 parliamentary elections as UPC factions battling for supremacy presented parallel lists for the said election.
Leaving the Constitutional Council after the verdict last December, Lipot said he remains respectful of state institutions and those who incarnate them.
Hear Lipot: “I am respectful of the institutions of the Republic and of those who embody them. I inherited from Augustin Frédérick Kodock, a political testament that is not easy to assume. But I was trained to assume it. It is in this sense that when the Constitutional Council takes decisions that can, and even, infringe the rights of the individual that I am, I have a thought for Augustin Frédérick Kodock who would never have realized great works for the UPC if he was interested in his political bruises; just as I have a thought for Ruben Um Nyobe who could never have fulfilled this great destiny for Cameroon if he had at any one moment been concerned with his own political bruises. I am a Republican; I remain entirely at the service of the cause of the UPC as Secretary General, but also in the service of the higher interests of my nation."
Thursday’s appointment may well be in a bid to take Lipot out of the political wilderness, given that the UPC is an ally of the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM) where President Biya is National Chairman.
Created in 1989, the Cameroon Debt Recovery Company (SRC) was reorganised by Presidential Decree No. 2020/016 of January 9, 2020. Same day, decree no. 2020/017 approved its statutes. The structure has its place as the operational instrument of political restructuring in Cameroon’s banking sector.
Cameroon-Info.Net notes that decree no. 2020/243 signed Thursday appointed Madame Diffo née Tchunkam Justine President of the Board of Directors of the Telecommunications Regulatory Agency, ART.
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