PAD to take back 97 hectares of land from city dwellers to develope infrastructure

BY NDUMBE BELL JOSEPH GASTON IN DOUALA PAD, in collaboration with the Ministry of State Property, Cadastral and Land Affairs, are engaged in an ambitious program to enlarge PAD’s sphere of influence or territory and carry out port activities. The operation is expected to free an area of land worth 97 hectares of land and evacuate an estimated population of 150,000 inhabitants most of who the Ministry of Lands has declared as illegal occupants. The impounded areas, the MINDCAF says, are in red zone places like Alpicam, Mambanda and surroundings in the Douala-Bonabéri 4th district including other places in Youpwe…