Abandoned Plantations:

CDC Management Grappling with Unpaid Salaries
By Doh Bertrand Nua in Yaounde
General Manager of the agro-industrial company, Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC has in a press release issued Wednesday 20 November 2019 promised workers of the company that steps are already underway towards payment wages for the month of September 2019.
    Franklin Ngoni Njie, made the promise one day after workers from the Technical Services Department and the Rubber Factory in Tiko staged a protest in Tiko Tuesday demanding payment of months of unpaid wages. The workers who have been working despite the security challenges caused by the Anglophone crisis but have not had pay stormed the office Divisional Officer for Tiko urging him to intervene in finding solutions to their problems.
    “The present upheavals come at a time when Management is making all efforts and has put in place concrete measures to gradually commence with the payment of wages for the month of September 2019.” Partly reads the General Manager’s release in which he recognizes the plight of workers who are confronted with untold suffering as a result of the impact of the ongoing socio-political crisis and expressing his gratitude to them for their perseverance and steadfastness in the face of this difficult time in the life of the Corporation. He enjoined all the workers to remain calm and hopeful as management continue to look up to the State for lasting solution to the problem.

    “While we empathize with the workers, it is worthy to remind ourselves that this precarious situation brought by the crisis in the Southwest and Northwest Regions will only find a lasting solution through our progressive and uncompromising resolve to resume work on the Estates. General Management calls on the entire workforce to continue to work collaboratively towards CDC’s common goal, which is resuming work in the plantation” Ngoni revealed while appreciating the administration and security forces for standing by the corporation in these difficult times.
    To recall is the fact that workers of the corporation have suffered several attacks from gunmen within the crisis in different units of the planation in Tiko. Ten workers were attacked last October 14, 2019 by gunmen at the Camp Six Residential Quarters in Sonne, with four of the ten workers taken into captivity by the gunmen. Five of the kidnapped works were severely beaten, one maimed with a machete while four others kidnapped were later released.