[Title translation, and the following summary of the interview’s key points, provided by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre; original posting by GRAIN in French follows, with a link to the full video. Company response follows on p. 3]
Interview with Ndjoya Dieudonné, CODEN...In 2006, Somdiaa signed a contract with the government extending the land that it could farm in Haute-Sanaga. This extension comes at the expense of rural communities like Ndo, which are finding their food security threatened...
Dieudonné: "...[The] long-term lease that the government signed [with Sosucam] in 2006...[deprived us of] the few lands that we had left after the first land grant made by the government in 1965.[Question:] Was the contract signed with the consent of the people affected?
Dieudonné: Not at all.
[Question:] Did Sosucam promise you compensation?
Dieudonné: Certainly...[but] each person gets on average 2000 CFA francs [per year from the government], which is five dollars per person.