Zacchaeus Mungwe Forjindam, jailed Former General Manager of the Cameroon Shipyard and Industrial Engineering.
The Supreme Court of Cameroon has ordered for a fresh re-examination of an appeal filed by Zacchaeus Mungwe Forjindam, the jailed Former General Manager of the Cameroon Shipyard and Industrial Engineering.
The case which came up for hearing in Yaounde on Tuesday January 19, was indefinitely adjourned by a college of seven judges led by Justice Mvondo Evezo’o. The court promised to inform Forjindam and his counsel when next the case will come up.
Following the adjournment by the Special Bench of the Supreme Court, Forjindam will have to stay longer as a New Bell prison tenant before his fate is determined in one of his two appeal suits.
Forjindam’s counsels, Barristers Djoubairou Ousmanou and Baombe Paul regretted the adjournment, lamenting that they have been expecting the verdict since 2012 after the appeal was filed.
They told reporters that the matter was called up for hearing for the first time in 2013 but was later removed from the roster because the court needed time to study the appeal before taking a decision.
Forjindam had appealed the Supreme Court over two sentences passed on him by lower courts. In one of the cases, the accused is praying the court to reverse a 15-year sentence passed on him on July 18, 2012 for embezzling 978 million FCFA.
Thereafter, on July 20, 2012, the Littoral Court of Appeal slammed him again with a life sentence for embezzlement of state funds.
It should be noted that Forjindam, who has been in prison in Douala since 2008, faces at least two other corruption indictments at the Supreme Court, including an appeal against another conviction.
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