Cameroon’s renowned anti-corruption advocate and former presidential candidate, Akere Muna, is sounding the alarm over what he calls the systematic theft of the country’s gold. In a detailed report shared on Facebook, he highlights massive discrepancies between gold export figures declared in Cameroon and import figures recorded in Dubai — discrepancies so large that he believes they expose a coordinated system of corruption and resource plunder.
Muna points to a striking comparison: Cameroon reportedly declared just $0.8 million in gold exports to the UAE in 2019–2020, while Dubai declared imports from Cameroon worth $340 million. He argues this gap, over 400 times larger, cannot be dismissed as an accounting error but reflects smuggling, under-invoicing and official complicity in what he describes as the haemorrhaging of national wealth.
He draws a parallel to the Glencore bribery scandal in the oil sector, warning that Cameroon’s suspension from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) shows the country is still failing to meet global accountability standards.
As Muna puts it, from gold mines to offshore oil, a “state-capture machine” continues to rob Cameroonians of the wealth that should improve their lives — and the fight for transparency is far from over.
Akere Muna, Blows alarm over the systematic theft of Cameroon’s gold.
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