In 2016, HAMADJODA YAYA was arrested in the East region in possession of carcasses of protected animal species of classes B & C without a certificate of origin. He was prosecuted and sentenced. But dissatisfied with this decision, the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife made an appeal for the penalty to be more rigid and for the amount of civils damages to be increased. But the judges of the East Court of Appeal simply judged the demand related to the increase in civil damages, invoking article 456 of the Criminal Procedure Code which stipulates that when the appeal is brought by the civil party alone, the Court of Appeal can only rule on damages.