Military Cooperation : Nigerian Defense College Visits CDC

The 33rd Batch of the Nigerian Defense College has immersed themselves with the daily operations of the Cameroon Development Corporation following a visit to the Group Banana and Rubber in Tiko. The 21-man delegation led by Air Commodore Famuyiwa Ayodele Keshinro visited the Sonne/Likomba estate of rubber along the Tiko-Doouala highway, the banana farm and Pack House and the Tiko factory (industrial unit). 
The visitors from the neigbouring country were received on arrival by the General Manager of CDC, Franklin Ngoni Njie and his team. In a working session at the CDC Senior Service Club in Bota-Limbe, the General Manager in his presentation on the “Agriculture and National Development: Role of Cameroon Development Corporation”, “traced the origin of CDC and explained the socio-economic role of the 78-years-old corporation. He said, before the socio-political crisis in the North West and South West Regions in 2016, CDC with a staff strengthen of over 20,000 workers, used to make a turnover of FCFA 60 billion. The corporation, he elucidated, has been severely threatened by the separatist armed attacks killing more than 25 workers and harming hundred others as well as destroying installations and vehicles. 12,000 workers of the corporation were unable to go to work leading to a drop in its production to over 10 per cent in 2019. The crisis, Mr Ngoni Njie stated, has enabled CDC to have a first-hand experience on the important role of security in agriculture. With the huge support from the government (financially and security) the corporat...