YAOUNDE CAMEROON  Letter from a Ghost (SNH) By Akere Muna

A reaction to SNH Infos n° 81

SNH published an editorial this week. It carries the name Adolphe Moudiki. It does not carry the man.

For nearly three years, Mr. Moudiki has not been seen. Not at a press conference. Not at a board meeting. Not at the one forum where his presence is not optional — the annual session of the African Petroleum Producers Organisation, held in October 2024 in his own country’s capital, which he could not attend. Cameroon had to send a government minister to stand in his place, because the institution he nominally heads could not produce its own head.

In his absence, his wife has assumed his functions. Nathalie Moudiki sits as Director of Legal Affairs and Technical Adviser inside SNH, and chairs the board of CSTAR — the very vehicle into which SNH has poured public money without board approval, without an express government authorization, and without a published feasibility study. She represented SNH at APPO in his place. She chaired CSTAR’s Dubai board meeting. Documents bearing her husband’s signature are understood to carry a scanned image of it, not his hand.

This is not succession. It is not delegation. It is a vacancy dressed as leadership, and Cameroonians are entitled to know who is actually deciding how their national oil company is run.

I take particular exception to this editorial’s attempt to borrow the credibility of Transparency International Cameroon — the organisation I founded — by referencing a “working session” as though it constituted an endorsement of SNH’s governance. It did not, and I have not been told what, if anything, TI Cameroon actually agreed to.

An institution that cannot produce its own director should not be permitted to produce editorials in his name. Cameroon deserves an SNH led by someone who can be seen, questioned, and held to account — not administered by proxy and defended by a signature nobody watched being signed

YAOUNDE, CAMEROON  Letter from a Ghost (SNH) By Akere Muna