The management of Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC finds itself under the obligation to denounce and dispel illusions that workers of the CDC may in anyway, whatsoever, be a threat to the peace and serenity that is so much needed, particularly at this time that the nation is playing host to the African Cup of Nations, AFCON.
This wave of misinformation is building on the heels of the arrest of six workers while they were carrying out their daily assignment in our Holtforth banana plantation on Tuesday, January 4, 2022 by the Tiko administration.
It should be recalled that by ministerial order No 0646/MINCAF/SG/DI/300/T DB of September 2020, the minister of state properties, surveys and land tenure cancelled together with all its effects his earlier decision No 0298/MINDCAF/SG/DI/DI2/ 1300/LY of June 9, 2020 allocating 35ha 76a 50ca of the CDC leasehold land to Tiko Village Community.
The cancellation order further reintegrated the land into CDC leasehold. In total disrespect of this order, the Tiko Village Community went ahead to fell palms in the buffer area adjacent
to the Holtforth banana plantation.
CDC embarked on replanting the area with palms. As a result of the ensuing conflict, the Divisional Officer for Tiko Subdivision Armstrong Kawa placed an injunction on the buffer zone by decision No 167/DG.37/02OF October 2, 2020.
While the CDC has complied with the said injunction by stopping the replanting at the of the buffer zone, the Tiko Village Community is consistently violating same by planting pillars, opening streets, constructing houses and so on.
In the drive to progressively recover from the devastating impact of the sociopolitical crisis on our banana sector, the destruction of 3,300 hectares of banana plantations, pushing 5,000 workers into technical leave, the Corporation has programmed to plant 345 hectares of banana in 2022.
The first batch of plantlets is programmed for transfer from the nursery to the field latest February 4, 2022. It is in line with this programming that workers were duly assigned on Tuesday, January 4, 2022 to engage in the preparation of the land for eventual field planting in the Holtforth banana plantation.
Barely one day after the misguided arrest of six workers on January 6, CDC workers were again attacked, this time by thugs of the Tiko Village Community, who also used bulldozers to open roads and destroy vital infrastructure (cableway, oxbows, etc) in Holtforth banana plantation.
The targeted misinformation about the committed workforce of the CDC who are patiently waiting and hoping to be reabsorbed into normal employment on the one hand and the intolerable actions of the Tiko Village Community on the other are the handiwork of some unscrupulous individuals who are bent on frustrating Government’s drive to revamp the CDC.
The allegation that CDC workers may be involved in an attempt to disrupt the AFCON is false. The sinister machinations to disturb these workers in the execution of their daily work on the plantations should not be allowed to succeed.
CDC GM Franklin NgonI Njie
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