Alphonse Siyam Siwe (born August 4, 1953[1][2]) is a Cameroonian politician who served as Minister of Energy and Water from 2004 to 2006 and was previously the Director-General of the Autonomous Port of Douala.
[4] In the 2002 parliamentary election, Siwe was re-elected to the National Assembly from Haut-Nkam constituency,[3][5] where his list, that of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement, received 49.58 percent of the vote and won two of the three available seats.
[3][6] He served in that post for a little over a year; on February 24, 2006, he was dismissed from the government and arrested[7] for allegedly participating in the theft of about 38 billion CFA francs in public funds during his stint as Director-General of the Autonomous Port of Douala.
This was widely believed to be a witch hunt and an attempt by those in power at preventing his rise in popularity; which they saw as a threat.
Three of the other 12 defendants were also found guilty,[9] including Edouard Nathanaël Etondè Ekotto and François Marie Siéwé Nitcheu, who respectively received 15- and 25-year sentences.