Fako land-grabbing administrators panic as gov’t, CONAC set to open investigation

  -Orchestrate suspension of critical CRTV Buea programme that blew their cover

  -Full list of administrators suspected of illegal land grabbing in Fako inside 

  From Mua Patrick Mughe in Buea

Okala Bilai: SW Governor

Great fear is said to have gripped some administrators in the South West region, following government’s impending probe into the incessant land-grabbing imbroglio by certain ‘land-hungry’ administrators in Fako division. A no-nonsense team from the National Anti-Corruption Commission, CONAC, has also been announced in Fako in the days ahead to open investigations into alleged illegal land-grabbing by administrators.

Meanwhile, it is widely-believed within the media corps in Buea that the indefinite suspension of the highly- rated interactive CRTV Buea programme, Press Club, has been orchestrated by the administrators implicated in the Fako land-grabbing scandal.

Zang III: Fako SDO

Those suspected of causing the suspension of the programme, we gathered,were not comfortable with several issues dissected ; especially the one that exposed land-grabbing administrators in Fako division. Last week, news of the indefinite suspension of the program circulated in the South West region ; just  days after the Fako Land Crisis was again critically-discussed.

In a chat with The Guardian Post last night, the chief of programmes for CRTV Buea, Teke Julius while confirming the indefinite suspension of the programme said the suspension decision was signed yesterday by the CRTV South West regional boss, David Chuye Bunyui.

But even though Teke refused to put responsibility for the suspension of the programme  at the doorsteps of some administrators, the South West regional coordinator for the National Commission for Human Rights and Freedoms, Christopher Tambe Tiku told The Guardian Post that the South West governor, Bernard Okalia Bilai was behind the mask. He accused the governor of instigating gullible Fako chiefs to write a petition against him (Tambe Tiku) for fanning ‘’xenophobia, social unrest and genocide’’.

To recall, the Saturday July 12, 2014 episode of the program focused on the Fako Land Crisis with guests, Christopher Tambe Tiku and Barrister Ngongi Ikome, a native of Fako. During the program, both men noted strongly that the land surrendered to Fako villages by the CDC and the state has been acquired illegally by some top government officials in the division.

Though Tambe Tiku who is equally an ELECAM board member felt-short of calling names, he said on air that one of such government officials owns as many as ten hectares of land with titles in Fako. It was during the same programme that Christopher Tiku revealed that Prime Minister Philemon Yang had received them (Tambe Tiku and Barrister Ngongi) in audience for hours to discuss the Fako Land Crisis issue.

The Guardian Post has it on good authority that the CRTV Buea regional boss, David Chuye Bunyui, was summoned by South West governor at the close of last week  and given marching orders to suspend the critical programme on claims that it was detrimental to social peace.

Meanwhile during last night’s telephone conversation with The Guardian Post, the out-spoken Tambe Tiku cited the SDO for Fako, Zang III as a major Fako land-grabber. He wondered how the senior civil administrator could grab as much as one hectare of land in a tiny village like Ngeme in the outskirt of Limbe.The rights crusader equally faulted Governor Okala Bilai for having what he qualified as a mischievious interest in the parcels of land ceded to the indigenes of Fako by the Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC.

He further named officials of the South West regional delegation of state property and land tenure as also involved in the Fako Land grabbing deal. He announced that the prime minister has within two weeks met with him and Barrister Ngongi three times over the Fako Land-grabbing scandal. Tambe gave to understanding that heads of administrators implicated in the land scandal would roll. 

The Guardian Post has meanwhile independently gathered that some senior officials at the presidency of the republic also owned large portions of the land that was handed to Fako villagers by the CDC.   

The Fako Land Crisis saga, to note, has left many Fako chiefs divided. The lives of many have been threatened; including the moderator of the CRTV Buea Press Club program, “Mola” Matute Menyoli whose home is now heavily guarded by police officers. Other panellists, Macdonald Ayang of the Eden and Ambe Christopher of the Recorder have equally complained of similar threats.