KRIBI : CITIZENS OF KRIBI RIOT AGAINST THE CHINESE COMPANIES FOR NOT RECRUITING LOCAL CITIZENS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BUILDING OF THE KRIBI PORT.

They demand the payment of their fees and the recruitment of their sons in the companies that build the highway from the port.
Tension has remained strong since Monday in the villages Ndoumale, Sophie, Edoungangomo and Mabenanga, located on the route of the auto road that leads to the Kribi deep water port. In their anger, these populations have banned work on the site. The Chinese responsible for the implementation of the work have been held in respect, unable to climb on their gear as usual.
On May 26, a match had been filed on the table of the prefect of the Ocean with purpose: "complaints on the modalities of management of populations of the area of the auto road. A match that seems to have found a favourable echo with the authorities. Anger that broke out thus rests on three essential claims: no recruitment of local people in the companies running the work; the refusal of local companies in the various subcontracts; and of course, the compensation payments related to the passage of the auto road.

The non-compliance with the Act

It is two years the Board of assessors of property is passed in the villages affected by the project. After endless debates on the Mercurial and the quality of the people to be expropriated, populations were surprised by Chinese gear which destroyed everything in their path. Today, fields and many other properties have been destroyed and the populations still remain without compensation. They wanted to raise several times, but drowned out by the local authorities.
However, the expropriation for public utility is framed by the law. Under article 545 of the Civil Code, "nobody may be forced to transfer its property, if for utilities, and for a just cause and prior compensation. This would mean that the only legal circumstance in which an individual can lose his property against his will is the case of expropriation for public purposes. The public utility should be understood as general interest. Expropriation for public purposes is defined as the deprivation of the individual of its property through a special procedure and subject to a compensatory indemnity. Expropriation for public purposes is governed by Ordinance No. 74-3 06/07/1974 relating to the procedure of expropriation for public utility and arrangements for compensating, repealed by Act No. 85/009 of 4 July 1985 on expropriation for public purposes and the terms of compensation which the application is made possible by Decree No. 87/1872 10 December 1987 on the application of the law n ° 85-009 of 4/7/1985. The owner of a property to be expropriated must be compensated before the destruction of the property in question.