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Cameroon: DO Threatens to Sue Grazier
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The Post (Buea)
25 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Peterkins Manyong
The protracted Wum Farmer/Grazier problem recently took a new twist with the Divisional Officer, DO, of Wum, Augustine Awa Fonka, threatening court action against a grazier.
The Wum DO is the chairman of the Wum Farmer Grazier Commission and the grazier in question is one Alhadji Guni Wara. The DO has accused the grazier of writing a defamatory petition to the SDO for Menchum.
In a complaint addressed to Menchum SDO, Guni accuses the DO of extorting FCFA 500,000 from him because he failed to quit his compound, which according to the Wum administrator, is part of grazing land. But even after he and his brothers, Sani and Amadou, had "coughed out" the money, the complaint states, the DO still did not leave him and family alone.
Three months later, according to the complainant, the DO arrested and detained him and family at the Wum Brigade. Even after his release, Guni claims, the DO wanted him rearrested. This forced him and family to flee his compound, taking along his cattle.Alhadji Guni further complained that the place where the Wum Administration wanted him to settle with his cattle does not have adequate grazing land.
In the petition, he called on the SDO to intervene and rescue him from the hands of the DO.
Infuriated DO
Reacting to the grazier's petition, DO Fonka Awa said he would not take it lying down "I will sue him for defaming me," he lashed out calling Guni, "Wum's most recalcitrant grazier." The grazier, he added, was a man of bad faith who never respected his commitments. The DO claimed that the grazier had signed an undertaking to respect all administrative orders.
The DO qualified Alhadji Guni's attacks on him as a diversionary strategy, a pretext to disobey the administration's decision ordering him and the other 28 graziers to quit the demarcated area reserved for farming.
He vowed that Alhadji Guni's behaviour would not dampen his determination to ensure that grazier and farmers respect the decision of the Administration. He called on politicians to hands off the Wum /farmers grazier issue.
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Ali Amadou, Wum's Assistant DO told pressmen that he had been to the field at least 21times and that the graziers who are the main defaulters run away with their cattle each time they see any administrative official or Wum Council vehicle.
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