Amadou Ali, the Deputy Prime Minister‘s health is deteriorating mentally and physically according to press reports sighting witnesses who had a meeting with the Minister recently.

Ahmadou Ali was evacuated to France on Wednesday, October 14, 2015, and is currently detained in a hospital in France for urgent medical attention.

The 72-year-old who moonlights as Vice Prime Minister and Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Relations with the Assembly in the current CPDM regime, is one of the closest collaborators of President Biya for the past 34 years.

He was said to be suffering from serious respiratory problems and left Cameroon accompanied by his personal physician only since last year.

His wife who is also a medical doctor by profession had stayed behind to attend to some issues including close family engagements in the town of Kolofata, Far North Region of Cameroon.There has been no official statement on his health situation from the government.

Mutation in late October 2015 reported that another high-ranking state official Yaouba Abdoulaye, Minister Delegate at the Ministry of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, was barred from visiting Ali in French Hospital where he is receiving treatment.

According to Mutation, Yaouba Abdoulaye wrote to Philemon Yang head of government seeking a preliminary endorsement before a request for a mission order is forwarded to the President of the Republic to enable him visit Amadou Ali in his French hospital bed. However, the permission was denied. Thus, details about his health condition have been still sketchy.

The deterioration of the health of the Minister of State is linked to the revelations made by Abdallah Adamu last year.

Abdallah Adamu, who negotiated the release of Boko Haram hostages, like Rev.Fr.Vandenbeusch,a Catholic priest in Cameroon, was arrested following his sudden unexplained overnight wealth.

Abdallah Adamu is currently detained in a secret location custody by the Cameroonian Intelligence Services.