If the allegations made by a Kumba inhabitant, Fofana About Ngute Daniel, are anything to go by, then the City Mayor, Gregory Ntemeyok Mewanu, might be in for yet another legal battle, this time over a piece of land which he is accused of scheming to seize.
As reported by authoritative English-language daily newspaper, The Guardian Post, Ngute accuses the City Mayor of using his position to access the corridors of power in Yaounde and Buea in an attempt to dispossess him of his land at the strategic Alaska Street neighbourhood.
On the said land is a two-storey building which is constructed by Ngute who blames delays for its completion on what he claims are intrigues by Mewanu to own the land and the Anglophone crisis.
Fofana About Ngute Daniel
Ngute said the piece of land is a product of his over 25 years of labour in the United Kingdom. He says he is in possession of land certificate No: 01983 of 5 August 2011, registered in his name at the Kumba land registry, giving him right as owner of the piece of land. Ngute said the battle between him and Mewanu over the land dates back to 2012 when they first appeared before the then State Prosecutor for Meme, Justice Batuo Paul. He said back then, Mewanu had nothing to justify his claim of being the owner of the said land. He went on and regretted that Mewanu, since becoming City Mayor, has been multiplying efforts, using his new office and position to try to dispossess him of the land.
“…in 2012, when the State Counsel asked, Gregory Memanu was not able to produce any piece of document. But today because he is the City Mayor of Kumba, he has gone right to Yaounde claiming that he owns my land,” Ngute stated.
He insisted: “I followed the outlined procedure to obtain my land certificate. The land was paid for. I have all the necessary documents. I have been living in the UK for over 25 years of my life. This is the only land I have got. I don’t take people’s things. Sometimes my family doesn’t see me, I will get up at 3am only to return at 11pm just to see how I can make my own money. This is my retirement home”.
Begs authorities, Nfon Mukete to intervene
Ngute in the audio sent out a distress call to powers that be and the Paramount ruler of the Bafaw and Nfon of Kumba, Nfon Ekoko Mukete IV to urgently intervene and enable him get justice. “Gregory Mewanu is trying to use his position to seize my land and this will not happen. I call on the Nfon of Kumba, HRH Nfon Ekoko Mukete IV, please your majesty look into this issue,” Ngute pleaded.
Ngute regretted that it is due to what he is going through that most Diaspora-based Cameroonians fear to invest back home. “This is why some of us don’t invest back home because whenever we try to develop, people come with motives. How can people be talking about irregularity?. I paid every franc government asked for. I don’t pay bribe,” he stated.
Controversial letter from lands minister
The Guardian Post report indicated that it stumbled on a letter dated May 10, 2022, purportedly written by the Minister of State Property and Land Tenure, Henri Eyebe Ayissi, addressed to Ngute on the same land matter. The newspaper reported that the letter titled “dispute over land certificate No. 01983/Meme” did not carry the name and seal of the minister.
The said letter talked of a petition from the Kumba City Mayor, stating that, “a commission of inquiry shall be going to Buea to ascertain the regularity of the above land certificate”. The letter indicates that Ngute will be notified by a bailiff “at the behest of the petitioner”. Quizzed about the said letter, Ngute claimed “it shows that Gregory Mewanu is using his position to take my land…”. The City Mayor is still to react to the viral audio as well as the article as reported by The Guardian Post.
Very Interesting things are happening recently
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