Tension

Originally, members of a family who said they were “committing suicide” if no urgent solution was found on their land, located at the Mandja crossroads, on National Road No4, and where construction work on a gas station.

Newly installed, the prefect of Ndé, Auguste Essomba is already in a highly sensitive matter. On his instructions, the sub-prefect of the district of Bangangté, Atanga Zoawill chair a meeting on May 11 at the Multifunctional Center for the Promotion of Youth in Bangangté.

The parties are convened while that same day, the prefect Essomba will pass the baton to the former prefect of Ndé, Ewango Budu, who replaces him in the department of Faro-et-Déo. This will be during the change of command ceremony chaired by the Governor of the Adamaoua region.

Instead, the sub-prefect is responsible for shedding light on this matter. The mayor of the commune of Bangangté, the departmental delegate of the land registry and all members of the advisory commission, the brigade commander, the public security commissioner, the head of the Bangangté group, the representative of the Jff oil company, the Mandja district chief (Neukeule), the representatives of the Green oil company, Tchuateu Beauclaire and witnesses (9 people), the Soup Pankwe family (9 people). He also invites the parties to provide themselves with the documents needed to better assess the situation. In his note, he insists on the fact that the prefect has instructed to shed light on this case and put a definitive end to the dispute.

It’s a lot more complicated than you think. Despite the stoppage of work, with Croix St André on the site, the promoter, Beauclaire Tchuateu continues the work.

The latter brandishes an order to continue work given by the administrative court. For the town hall of Bangangté, the promoter did not receive a building permit, especially for a project of this scale.

The lack of a building permit is due to the fact that the law prohibits that within 500 meters of distance, one cannot have two service stations of two different companies. However, in this case, the town hall received the

application for a building permit from Green oil, which it claims to have issued within the time limits prescribed by law. The disputed situation is the fact that the promoter has applied for a building permit for the company Ola. Officials of the town hall say “in their good faith, suggested to the promoter to get along with the Green oil station which is almost finished to make an extension of the station and to file a request in good and due form at the town hall”. According to these officials, this suggestion was not to the liking of the promoter who is determined to challenge the municipal authority.

In addition, the family owning the land, says they are not unanimous on “an alleged sale of the land to Tchuaten Beauclaire. We summoned him to the family meeting to settle the case and he preferred to headlong”. The family fears that the sub-prefect is biased in this case. Some say he supports the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ketcha Courtés, “the one on whom Tchuaten Beauclaire relies to taunt people. The sub-prefect’s wife was in Courtés’ delegation recently in Poland. We understand that she involved the sub-prefect in this story”.