Indigenes Risk Losing Rights To Land Grabbers

Several arguments have been raised for and against land grabbing world and for most part those for have pointed out the huge economic and financial gains that governments and a few people would gain from the land deals but not limited to the employment of a few hundred Cameroonians.
While the benefits of land grabs go to individual pockets, the majority of those whose lands have been leased for over 99 years are forced to pack and turn into daily overworked, but underpaid workers now squatting on their own lands. Their future become uncertain as they could be fired at any time with no hope of ever finding another job especially as they are unskilled and lack the necessary education and technical training. 
Consequently, the indigenous people become slaves in their own land. Besides suppressing the right of the local people to a secured future, land grabbers also are prepared to destroy huge expanses of high conservation value forests in the South West (70,000 hectares for Herakles/SGSOC), 80,000 hectares for Forzi Sugar Company, several thousand hectares for another sugar company in Bertoua and hundreds of hectares by Baba Danpullo in the North West as well as by other noted urban-based elites in the West, Centre, Littoral and South Regions of Cameroon. 
The sudden surge of interest of Cameroon public service servants who otherwise are supposed to be average wealthy citizens to become politicians and “business-like” tycoons is helping to exacerbate the whole situation as hundreds of thousands of indigenous people are being pushed out of their traditional lands, and a new occupation by the town-based elites take place. While all of these are occurring rapidly, the government of Cameroon has continued to remain silent on this. 
The entry of the Ministry Of Land Tenure to regulate this increasing phenomenon of poor and indigenous people’s alienation from their land and resources would be most desired at this time if the government will not be willing to create a new landless class of indigenous communities as witnessed in Latin and South America till the 1980s. It is also time for the indigenous communities to form a new rural land movement coalition to fight back on this new phenomenon of land grabbing and alienation. 
Such movements have been at the centre of the revolution in Latin and South America and today, the rural and indigenous communities have created large expanses of indigenous territories controlled and managed by the indigenous people themselves. 
The current disenfranchised and politically weakened and poor indigenous people in Cameroon need national and international support to remain in their land now and into the future.