Crisis At Douala Port (Part 6): Plunged Into Panic By The Ultimatum Of GECAM, The General Manager Of PAD Has Desperately Been Trying To Shift Blame To Others

The GW Of PAD On Friday, Feb. 13 Wrote To The Minister Of Finance, And Complained About The Customs And SGS Cameroun. But In A Swift Response, Minister MOTAZE  Distanced The Customs and SGS  From Any Responsibility  For The Crisis At the Port, and Bluntly Told  The  GM Of PAD: “I Demand That You Should Immediately Proceed To Re-Instate  SGS, In Its Full Rights At The Douala Port”

 Definitely part of the desperate operation by his Camp, to counter the indictment by GECAM of the management of PAD for the crisis at the Douala Port, the General Manager of PAD, Cyrus Ngo’o, addressed a correspondence to the Minister of Finance, Louis Paul Motaze, on Friday, February 13, 2026, for the first time since the crisis sparked off at the Douala Port at the beginning of this year, because of his controversial decision and action.

PAD GM Complains About The GM Of SGS Cameroun

Again, the General Manager of PAD, Cyrus Ngo’o, in his correspondence repeated his false claim that while he was ready to implement the February 29 directives of the Prime Minister to end the crisis at PAD, by ensuring that SGS Cameroun resumes activities, the General Manager of SGS Scanning Cameroun SA was persistently posing as an obstacle, by persistently refusing to collaborate with PAD. The General Manager who said SGS Cameroun was against the idea of being accompanied by PAD in its activities at the Douala Port, added that PAD will not accept that SGS Cameroun continues to operate the way it was doing in the past, allegedly in violation of the 2019 Presidential Decree organizing the Douala Port Authority. Cyrus Ngo’o however did not give any details of how PAD wants to accompany SGS Scanning Cameroun in its activities at the Douala Port.

GM Of PAD Also Complain To Minister About The Customs

The General Manager of the Douala Port Authority, Cyrus Ngo’o, who pretended as if he did not know that the Customs stopped collaboration with Transatlantic D at the Douala Port, on the instruction of the Minister of Finance through the General Directorate of Customs, complained about what the Customs did to Transatlantic D, paralyzing the company’s activities at the Douala Port.  He blamed especially  the Customs’  Chief of Sector for Littoral II, Mendouga Georges, whom h said led the Customs tram that  disconnected all digital  or internet link that  that connected  Transatlantic D and the Customs Service at the Douala Port, and also handed back all Transatlantic D computers and  other equipment that were installed at the Customs Service.

It was also interesting that the General Manager of PAD, complained to the Minister of Finance about the termination of the collaboration between the Customs and the Transatlantic D at the Douala Port, whereas the Prime Minister’s directives that were given to him since January 29, was that he should take away the Transatlantic he illegally brought in to replace SGS Cameroun at the port, for SGS Cameroun to resume its activities at the port.

Minister Motaze Tells PAD GM To Stop Playing Games

Meanwhile in a swift reaction to the correspondence of General Manager of PAD, Cyrus Ngo’o, on that same Friday, February 13, 2026, the Minister of Finance, Louis Paul Motaze, distanced the Cameroon Customs and SGS Cameroun from any blame on the crisis at the Douala Port, and told the PAD Boss to stop playing games.

As regard the Customs, the Minister recalled that at the end of the meeting which was held at the  Presidency on Thursday, January 22, 2026 on  the crisis at the Douala Port, the General Directorate of Customs  accepted the  decision that  the Customs should  temporary collaborate with Transatlantic D at the  Douala Port, while waiting for  Government to clarify its position on the controversy  or confusion , over the decision by the management of PAD to bring in Transatlantic D to replace SGS Cameroun at the Douala Port.

Inter – Ministerial Meting

Minister Motaze recalled that the Government position was made clear on the issue at the inter –ministerial  meeting which the Prime Minister and Head of Government , Chief Dr Joseph Dion Ngute, chaired  in Yaounde on February 29, 2026, on  the crisis at the Douala Port. The Finance Minister recalled to the General Manager of PAD, Cyrus Ngo’o,  that, the Government’s position was made abundantly clear to him at the meeting, which is that the contract which the Cameroon Government signed with SGS in 2015 is still valid, and will end in 2032. He also recalled that the General Manager of PAD was told in clear terms that he did not have the competence to terminate a contract signed by Government.

The Finance Minister further recalled that by the end of the February 29 meeting, the firm directives of the Prime Minister to the General Manager of PAD, as was stressed upon in the correspondence which the Secretary General at the Prime Minister’s Office addressed to him on February 30, was that he should immediately take all necessary dispositions to see that SGS Cameroun resumes its activities at the Douala Port.  But Minister Motaze regretted that since then the General Manager of PAD has not implemented the directives of the Prime Minister.  The minister exposed the game or intrigues that the General Manager of PAD has been playing, pointing out for example that instead of implementing the directives of the Prime Minister, PAD continued to block SGS Cameroun from  resuming its activities , and  had rather been  directing all importers and exporters with scanners, to go to Transatlantic D.

The Minister of Finance ended his correspondence to the General Manager of the Doula Port Authority, Cyrus Ngo’o, on this blunt note: “Je l’honneur de vous demader de bien vouloir proceder immediatement au retablissement de la SGS dans  l’integralitede  ses droits’. That is, the Finance Minister asked the Genera l Manager of PAD to immediately proceed to reestablished or reinstate to SGS Cameroun, its full rights at the Douala Port.

PAD Wants An Illegal Modification Of The 2015 Convention That Gov’t Signed With SGS  

It should be noted that General Manager of PAD, Cyrus Ngo’o, who is bent on maintaining Transatlantic D at the Douala Port, precisely at the container scanning section, has been trying to pressurize the General Manager of SGS Scanning Cameroun SA, Patricia Nzondjou, for them to discuss collaboration between SGS Scanning Cameroun and Transatlantic D at the Douala Port.  Cyrus Ngo’o mentioned this idea of collaboration for example, in a correspondence dated February 2, 2026, that he addressed to the General Manager of SGS Scanning Cameroun SA.

But the General Manager of SGS Scanning Cameroun has made it clear to the General Manager of PAD, that neither the management of SGS Cameroun, nor the management of PAD, has the right or competence to discuss anything aimed at modifying an article in the contract that was signed by the Cameroon Government and SGS in 2015.

The General Manager of SGS Scanning Cameroun has advised the General Manager of PAD, that if the corporation wants anything in the 2015 contract or convention to be modified, the corporation should better present the proposal to the Cameroon Government, which is a signatory to the convention.  It should be noted that while the General Manager of the Douala Port Authority wants SGS Cameroun and Transatlantic D to co-exist at the merchandise scanning sector at the Douala Port, an article in the 2015 contract that was signed by Government and SGS, clearly states that no other operator is supposed to enter the sector during the period of the contract.