The Bastos Factory Land Scandal: A Complex Legal Battle in Cameroon

Pat Rich, signatory of the letter of denunciation addressed to the Head of State Paul Biya and head of the legal and compliance department for sub-Saharan Africa at BAT

The Bastos Factory Land Scandal: A Complex Legal Battle in Cameroon Initially partially retroceded to the local community, the lands of the estate formerly used by British American Tobacco for its cigarette manufacturing plant were then curiously put up for sale to relatives of the presidential family and barons of the Yaoundé regime. Cameroonian Head…