Open Letter from CEO of Herakles Farms in Response to Report On ...

Of these 23 villages which HF presents as having signed the MOU and support the project, only 9
signatures are genuine. Of the 9 signatures, only two villages have a forest to offer HF. The rest, Lipenja I
numbering 250 people, Mokango Bima, 110 people, Kuma Bima, 58 people, Beboka Bima, 48 people,
Bweme Ngolo, 68 people, Mobenge Ngolo, 55 people and Iwai Bima, 15 people, only Fabe, 100 people
and Mokange, 105 people have land to offer the HF project. These are the 809 people in a community of
over 14,500 who have accepted HF in principle. Today, we have 3,000 plus signatures from the Mudemba
and Toko sub divisions alone. Let me also remind Bruce that the Bima, Ngolo and Batanga are ready to
give HF a real run for its money if you succeeded in bribing yourself through the Presidency of Cameroon
and imposing yourself on their lands. That will be in total contravention of the requirement for prior and
informed consent in land acquisition in Cameroon.
The populations of Mundemba and Toko sub divisions state emphatically that there is no paramount chief
of the Batanga and that Chief Mbile who is parading as paramount chief is not recognized as such by his
peers. He is seen as a corrupt impostor who is avaricious and can sell his father’s tomb for money. They
claim that when the moment of reckoning will come, the true heirs to the Lipenja I chieftaincy stool will
show themselves and HF will regret the trust invested in a rogue like Mbile. We have other honourable
rogues in Cameroon and even more still sitting among honourable parliamentarians today.
There is a mountain of evidence that Daniel Agoons has been bribing and attempting to bribe people on
behalf of HF. He approached the activist and deputy mayor of Mudemba council, Namulongo Peter with a
proposal of FCFA 13,000,000 to change his position in favour of HF. I recently encouraged him to take
the money and hold it as evidence of the corrupt practices of HF. Chief Mbile has been bribing people on
behalf of HF and as of last Saturday 21 September 2012 he paid out his most recent bribe package to
some supporters in Kumba. Chief Eleli of Meangwe II confessed that Chief Mbile has approached him
many times to take money and support HF.
To further prove opposition to HF, the community of Meangwe II barred the way to a team of technicians
claiming to be drilling for a borehole to get water to the surface for the community. The technicians were
simply ordered to leave or face the wrath of the teeming 850 population present in the village. Just the
population of Meangwe II alone, tip the balance against all the 9 villages which have signed on to HF.
Bruce, be informed that of the 19 villages in Nguti sub division, only the chiefs of three villages support
the project. Only Chief Dr Atem Ebako of Talangaye, who has surrendered his personal 47 hectares of
forest for the HF nursery, in exchange of patronage, money and cars, Chief Eben Nkongho of Manyemen,
and Chief Lordson Asek of Ayong who is a worker with the HF nursery in Talangaye has gotten into
deals with HF. When I interviewed people in these villages their populations all oppose the advent of HF.
Manyemen community evolved a scheme by which from their last farmland, they set aside 3 kilometers
for future development and generations to come. What was left was just 500 meters for HF. HF went and
tricked the SDO of Kupe Muanenguba and bribed him to come to Manyemen and tell the people they
should remove all HF pillars and adjust them so that they were planted far from farmlands. True to HF
modus of falsehood and deceit, HF sneaked back and planted the pillars instead towards the village as
such gaining more land for itself. This attracted protests from some folks led by retired Adjudant Ayuk,
formerly of the Cameroon army. The village is now split and preparing for a deep schism. Is it becoming
true that wherever there are resources, American Economic Hit Men like Bruce Wrobel will fan the
flames of conflict, so that while the indigenous people are fighting and killing themselves, the invader
company reaps their resources?