Mbonge DO condemns frivolous land disputes

The Divisional Officer, DO, for Mbonge Subdivision in Meme, Southwest Region, Simon Sombe, has described, as uncountable, the number of land disputes in that community and his area of command.

Sombe made the assessment, September 16, in an interview with The Post on the security situation of the Subdivision, few weeks after a uniform officer reportedly lost his pistol to suspect pirates.

According to the administrator, the major challenge within the Subdivision, which remains the largest in the whole republic, is conflicts emanating from land and boundary disputes.

He stressed that the rifts often begins with succession dispute when a community leader dies, alongside other prolonged errors caused by some Cameroonians who care less about the consequence of their actions and decisions.

Sombe expressed optimism that, despite the pressure caused by the conflicts, he remains in the process of bailing the Subdivision out of decades of confusion over communal and individual land management conflicts coupled with chieftaincy disputes.

Citing the case in Kombe Town were houses were burnt down as a result of chieftaincy disputes, the DO told reporters that, though nothing has been made public, he is at the verge of arriving at a lasting solution that will be accepted by all parties involved.

DO Sombe admitted that making the right move at any point in life will usually affect some groups of persons who are used to an unchanging situation, but going by the dynamics of contemporary society, change remains inevitable. The change, he enthused, must be in line with the laws governing land and chieftaincy disputes in Cameroon.