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Cameroon: 33 Forest Exploitation Companies Risk Suspension
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The Post (Buea)
25 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Nformi Sonde Kinsai
The Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Prof. Elvis Ngolle Ngolle, has warned some 33 forest exploitation companies to pay over FCFA 2 billion as outstanding forest royalties or face sanctions.
The warning is contained in a communiqué dated July 16, faulting the companies for failing to the pay the first and second quotas of royalties as required by law governing the forest sector.
Minister Ngolle Ngolle, in the note, stated that the companies concerned were notified on July 14 and given up till today, July 21 to regularise their financial engagements or "face repressive sanctions in conformity with the regulations enforced."
It should be noted that in March this year, Ngolle Ngolle suspended some 27 forest exploitation companies for various irregular activities which he considered to be contrary to the rules governing the sector.
This was followed a month later by an outing at a press conference to defend claims by a French NGO, Les Amies des Terres, that Cameroon's forest was being raped in total disregard to the tenets of sustainability. The Minister who said the issues criticised was rather exaggerated, noted that the ills identified in the NGO's report was something of old.
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He promised once more to root off all corrupt and irregular activities that may tarnish the image of the ministry and called on the press to publish corrupt practices committed by him or his collaborators.
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