1999 BLCC Memorandum to President Biya
Memorandum Dated 3rd March, 1999 to H. E. President Paul Biya Concerning the Privatisation of the Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC)
A. A Historical Background
A Delegation of several members of the government recently visited the South West Province with a view to explaining to the Chiefs, elite, and the population, Government’s intentions with regard to the Privatisation of the CDC, and to ally their fears on such questions as employment, social services, and land currently leased to the Cameroon Development Corporation.
We must respectfully point out that the land leased to the Cameroon Development
Corporation, on which stands the plantation developments for various crops, has a long history behind it. Some 104,000 hectares of the most fertile land in Fako Division was originally forcibly expropriated by the German colonial administration and handed over to German plantation developers without compensation to the dispossessed indigenes.
Prior to 1914 the Bakweris whose land was grabbed protested to the German Imperial government in Berlin, but the corrective measures then contemplated were aborted by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
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