Jesusegun Alagbe with agency reports
A former Minister of Water and Energy in Cameroon, Mr. Atangana Kouna, was on Thursday arrested in Nigeria and flown back home.
According to police and local sources, Kouna was arrested amidst a crackdown on high-level corruption in the French African country, Reuters reported on Friday.
There were speculations that Kouna was arrested as part of an anti-corruption drive known as Operation Sparrowhawk. Two other persons — a former Ministry of Public Works and the head of a state company, also an ex-rector of the University of Douala — were arrested earlier in the week as part of the operation.
Kouna was removed from his ministerial position during President Paul Biya’s cabinet reshuffle on March 2, and he had already been ordered in February not to leave the country.
“Atangana Kouna is in Cameroon. He was arrested in Nigeria and sent back to…
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