2004 BLCC Reacts to Govt Announcement for Relaunching Privatisation of CDC
Cameroon Tribune, in its edition of Wednesday May 12, 2004 carried a report that the Hon Meva’a m’Eboutou, Minister of Finance and Budget, had published during the previous week, a notice of request for manifest interest in the banana, rubber and oil palm sectors of the CDC which are to be privatised. The report also stated that one Derrick Garvey, Chairman of Brobon Finex, the company that purchased the tea sector of CDC, had stated that the land on which is developed the plantations of the CDC belongs to Cameroon, and that his company has only bought 65% of the tea estates, but not the land.
The Bakweri Land Claims Committee (BLCC), the accredited mouth-piece of the minority Bakweri who are claiming ancestral rights over the land on which the CDC estates are developed, finds these reports extremely troubling and oppressive.
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