Corruption drained over FCFA 4 billion from 2024 State Budget

The Cameroon’s 2024 Anti-Corruption Status Report has revealed that the State lost over 4 billion FCFA to corruption within the year under review, with the public service continuing to manifest high rate of corruption.

The Report presented by the Chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Commission of Cameroon ‘‘CONAC’’, Rev. Dr. Dieudonné MASSI GAMS, on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, in Yaounde, also indicates that the State recovered over FCFA 8 billion from Corruption, in 2024, through the rulings of the Special Criminal Court and assets recovered by the Cameroon Debt Recovery Company.

The Commission received 10.520 denunciations as compared to 7.548 in 2023, while the number of State institutions that carried out anticorruption activities as recommended in the National Anti-Corruption Strategy, also rose from 84 in 2023 to 105 in 2024.

The Report that sizes up anti-corruption activities carried out by CONAC and other anti-graft bodies in the country, was presented in the presence of members of government, the diplomatic corps, administrative authorities, heads of anti-corruption units as well as members from the civil society.