Security intensified at PHP Banana plantation Kiven Brenda
News of attacks on workers of a banana production station, Plantation Du Haut Penja (PHD) had sent several workers away, while productivity reduced. Violent attacks carried out by separatists, continued till December 2018, but since then, things have gone back to normal.
Thanks to the deployment of military officials to the banana farm to resist attacks carried out by armed separatists, workers say they are now certain about their security at work.
An overseer at PHP said they are more secured with the presence of the military but away from work their lives are at risk. Mr. Frederic Kwassi said military protection doesn’t extend to their houses but they have no choice than keep their jobs, because it is their source of living.
“ There were kidnappings, we had people who were wounded in the process and their hands chopped off. When they usually attacked, they beat up workers to dissuade them from going to work. They burnt our station for plastics..... Many ran away. But with time it changed. When they hurt people, they stopped coming to work.
However, they finally built the courage to come to work one by one. Now we are motivated to work because of the presence of the military but we can't say for sure when we are off work and at our homes”, he said.
Visiting the plantation this Thursday July 25, the Executive Secretary of the Cameroon Banana Association( ASSOBACAM), Joseph Owona Kona said the situation has progressed as compared to the past three months.
The mission, aimed at understanding the Banana production sector in Cameroon, is expected to take the delegation of Mr. Owona Kono to the plantations of the Cameroon Development Corporation in Tiko, South West region, BPL in Missaka,SPM in Mbanga and the banana plantations of Njombe-Penja.
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