“From next week, our team of investigators on the illegal and abusive grabbing of lands in Fako shall start a series of presentations and exposures of some civil administrators and municipal authorities,” Ekosso said in a statement on behalf of his party.

He said “these serial land grabbers” have been violating existing presidential decrees and even those in their graves will be exposed.

His words: “It is scandalous that civil administrators sent to serve in Fako Division can blatantly defile Presidential Decree No. 003/CAB/PR of 8/2/1982, instructions signed by the President of the Republic in matters of acquiring lands in the areas where they are posted to work.

“We shall start with the governor, then later preceding and current Senior Divisional Officers from the time of late Zang III, and finally the Divisional Officers of the seven subdivisions of Fako.”

Ekosso says now is the time for the people of Fako. “Fako people, this is your time to retrieve your ancestral heritage from these unscrupulous administrators and their surveyors. We are coming out soon!”

Word to chiefs

The USDP National Chairman praised chiefs in Buea for not taking part in the National Day parade.

The chiefs had following a misunderstanding of a rallying call made by Governor Okalia Bilai Bernard for them to take part in this year’s National Day pledged to boycott the national feast. Only HRH Esuka Endeley, Paramount Chief-elect of Buea is said to have attended the patriotic ceremony along with members of his traditional council.

“A call for prudence to the South West Chiefs and particularly the Fako chiefs,” Ekosso captions his message.

He writes: “Mr. Okalia Bernard Bilai should be very worried and angry now for the fact that the Chiefs have resisted him successfully! He will definitely pull a joker, but there I am suggesting that the chiefs should take a smart step.

“The South West chiefs and particularly those in Fako become more and more courageous and do the following:

“They must write at once to the Prime Minister to lobby for the immediate transfer or dismissal of Mr. Bernard Okalia Bilai as the Governor of South West region alongside the D.O of Buea.

“Any attack on any chiefs irrespective of who they are will be an attack on the people which will advance the radicalization of the people.

“The new Governor must be somebody from the South West Region who masters the culture of the people. USDP party is behind the Chiefs with all strength.”