Christopher Fon Achobang |
Department
of Linguistics
Faculty
of Arts
University
of Buea
In
2009, Herakles Farms (HF) through its Cameroon affiliate Sithe Global
Sustainable Oils Cameroon PLC (SGSOC) signed an establishment convention with
Cameroon government to produce 440,000 tons of palm oil annually from over
73,000 hectares of pristine rainforest for a period of 99 years.
As
some of us who read the Establishment Convention, which had been intended to be
top secret, conclude, the Cameroon people, government and humanity were going
to be losers as none of the terms gave Cameroon anything in return for losing
so much forest and ecosystem. Humanity too loses because one of its lungs will
be infected by the deforestation cancer.