-Names corrupt land sellers who are protected by corrupt
officials
After
a long period of silence following a jail term in connection with the Tiko Land
Crisis, George Fonbah, Chairman of the Cameroon Real Estate Corporation
reported be have escaped from the country has finally broken the spell.
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| George Fonbah |
Among
other things, he has declared in a lengthy international telephone conversation
that the Fako Administration can never empower Traditional Chiefs to manage the
private property of the State on approved Council layouts in Tiko Sub Division.
The court Judgment from the Court of First Instance in Tiko he further says can
never replace the decree concerning the management of the private property of
the State. He equally refuses that he sells plots within National or State land
in the Tiko Sub-Division adding that since 1962, CDC owned no land or crops in
the approved council layouts in Tiko Sub- Division.
He
insists that it is the Cameroon Real Estate Corporation CREC that has spent
FCFA 100 million to finance the creation and development of all the approved
council layouts in Tiko Sub Division and that its only the Minister of State
Property, Surveys and Land Tenure that can manage the plots on the approved
council layouts in Tiko Sub Division.
Land
matters in Tiko he said are caused by the Cameroon Development Corporation CDC
and Traditional Chiefs. CDC in 1962 surrendered parts of farms 4 and 5 of the
Likomba Estate in a Deed of Surrender registered with the Lands Department on August
29, 1962 to the State and since then they have owned no land or crops within
the surrendered areas that became the private property of the state. He further
states that CDC illegally planted crops on the surrendered areas and are
presently illegally selling crops and unjustly enriching the corporation.
Concerning
the traditional chiefs whom he says claim that CDC had surrendered land to
their villages, he said these chiefs have no rights to manage and sell plots on
the private property of the state. “I want the public to know that CDC has no
land within any of the approved council layouts in Tiko Sub-Division to
surrender and sell land to Likomba and Tiko Chiefs.” He said for reasons of
Public Security and to help protect public interest, this continuous
exploitation of citizens (through acts of deceit, false pretence, theft by
agents of chiefs and the abuse of judicial and administrative processes
involved in land management) should stop. “I have seen corrupt practices on the
sale of plots by Chief Joke Johannes Vako at Likomba Residential Layout and by
Chief Nango Yome at the Holtforth Layout, Water tank and Long Street Extension
Layout.”
George
Fonbah intimated that he investigated and found out that CDC in a report dated February
4,2013 signed by the General Manager and addressed to the Senior Divisional
Officer for Fako surrendered in principle 30 hectares of land at
Likomba-Dibanda Estate to the Likomba Village and 12 hectares at Sonne Rubber
Estate to the Tiko Traditional Council. Legally he said, before any allocation
of these parcels of land, there must be a Deed of Surrender duly signed between
the Minister of Lands and the CDC Board Chairman concerning these areas.
George
Fonbah pointed at certain facts which don’t fall in place. For instance; the
Likomba Residential Layout, Holtforth Layout, Water tank and Long Street
Extension Layout are covered by the Deed of Surrender of 1962 and managed by decree
of allocation of private property of the State and at the same time, Chief Joke
Johannes and Chief Nango Yome have claimed that the Fako Administration have
empowered them to manage the above mentioned layouts as National land and they
have land certificates.
George
Fonbah said his concern was on the approved council layouts that the State
already holds its land certificate stating that any third party wanting to buy
land from there had to buy it from the state. He further explained that the
above mentioned chiefs have abandoned the land CDC surrendered to their village
in principle and obtained misleading land certificates to claim approved
layouts.
He
explained that the issue of managing layouts created on the surrendered lands
had been directed by a letter from the Prime Minister’s Office dated June 19,
2013 addressed to him and a letter from the Ministry of State Property, Surveys
and Land Tenure dated August 14, 2015 addressed to the Cameroon Real Estate
Corporation. In this light he said, only those who have bought plots from the
state can occupy plots on these layouts and “any chief who uses court judgment
to support such sales cannot work without obtaining a genuine land certificate.
I have heard the public say I do sell land. Well this bad news is not true.
There exists no sale document indicating that I have sold any land to any
person. No court or administration has any exhibit that I have sold land. There
is a mix up in professional fees I have received for documentation for the
acquisition of land certificates, building permits among other things on behalf
of Cameroon Real Estate Corporation and that cannot be styled as receipt for
sales of land by George Fonbah.” He said those selling lands with exhibits to
be prosecuted by the state have decided to promote allegations that he sells
land. These people he said have gone ahead to corrupt law enforcement officers
to take illegal actions against him. “I am an international legal person who
deal with the presidency, the Prime Minister’s Office, CONAC and the Minister
in charge of land on matters concerning the management of state land in
Cameroon” he said.
Attempts
to reach the General Manager of the Cameroon Development Corporation at press
time failed but this reporter will certainly reach other parties mentioned here
as the story unfolds.
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