Les Gens derrière les initiatives au Cameroun
Peter Ngufor: CEO Farmers’ House
Un opérateur économique, le PDG du groupe d'agriculture intégrée, IFG, et le
directeur général de la Farmers House, Mile 3, Nkwen à Bamenda. Cet élite et
bâtisseur de la nations de la région du Nord-Ouest a une incidence directe sur la
qualité de vie des Camerounais en sa qualité de directeur général de Farmer’s House
et en tant qu’homme politique et membre et poids lourd du Parti RDPC.
Farmers House Co Ltd est l'une des plus grandes multi-industries au Cameroun. Il s'agit
des principaux fabricants et exportateurs de produits alimentaires de la meilleure
qualité pour la consommation. Avec des produits certifiés par l’équipe du service
d’inspection Kosher du Orthodox Union, (OU), l’ISO, etc., afin de garantir que les
produits proposés à la société respectent les normes et qualités requises, le succès
de Farmer’s House n’est pas surprenant.
Peter Ngufor: CEO
Farmers’ House
An economic
operator, the CEO of the Integrated Farming Group, IFG, and the Director
General of the Farmers House, Mile 3, Nkwen in Bamenda. This elite and nation
builder from the Northwest Region directly impacts on the quality of lives of
Cameroonians in his capacity as the Director General of Farmer’s House and as a
politician and CPDM bigwig. |
| Ngufor Peter |
Farmers House Co
ltd is one of the largest multi-industries in Cameroon. It is the leading
manufacturers and exporters of food stuffs of best grade and quality for
consumption. With products certified by the Orthodox Union (OU) Kosher
Inspection Service Team, the I S O etc, to ensure that, the products offered to
society are of required grades and standards, the success of Farmer’s House
comes as no surprise.
Farmer’s House Co Ltd started as a cooperative
society where many farmers of the region brought their produce together and
sold to the population in bulk. With the passage of time they grew larger with
the coming of new members. This encouraged them to take the lead of exportation
of their produce. Later on when the cooperative society was subsidized, it grew
bigger and went into the production of some semi-finished products and a
variety of finished products. This was easier because the raw materials were
provided only by the farmers themselves. With the coming together of these
Farmers, the cooperative society was therefore transformed into a multi-purpose
company where varieties of goods are manufactured.
Encounters with
Peter Ngufor…..
Peter Ngufor in one of the many times that he
has spoken to the media said in a publication on CamerounWeb in his capacity as
a CPDM Politician that “before President Paul Biya, who doubles as the National
Chairman of the CPDM party came to Bamenda, for the 50th Anniversary of the
Armed Forces in 2010, it was wild talk everywhere that the whole of Northwest
was an opposition bastion. Going back a little, we convened several meetings
here in my office with key elite like; late Christopher Nsahlai, Dr. Ngwafor,
Zacheus Fornjindam, Patrick Akwa Kum and me, on how to handle the President’s
visit.
As you know, it has
been close to 20 years that he had not visited Bamenda. But before then, ahead
of the 2007 Legislative and Municipal elections, the CPDM party was quaking and
being afraid of losing the lone Parliamentary seat, that of late Hon. Fon Doh
Gah Gwanyim of Balikumbat. I suggested that the idea of CPDM always imposing
candidates is what has been preventing the party from winning elections.
The idea was bought
by the “think tank of five” that we organised. That is how we won nine
Parliamentary seats for the first time in several years. After this election,
few of the MPs came to me to say; Papa, thank you. I told them to go back, reconcile
and thank the people.”
Talking about the
preparation geared towards welcoming of President Biya during the 50th
Anniversary of the Armed Forces, Ngufor said he organised top meetings at his
late wife’s restaurant with Hon. Achidi Achu and others to press on Biya to
honour the Northwest with a civilian reception.
Because, it would
appear that Biya was to finish with the celebrations of the Armed Forces at the
Bamenda Airport and take off for Yaounde same day. This pressure paid-off and
President Biya accepted to be given a civic reception at the Bamenda Grandstand
where he declared the creation of the University of Bamenda, UBa, the
development of Menchum Fall, the commencement of work on the Ring Road , the
Referral Hospital and more.
“When I sit and
watch university students march past the grandstand every time I have the
opportunity to be there, I clap extra because we fought for this. The massive
turnout proved those who used to trade the Northwest for their personal gains
were wrong.
The Head of State
discovered that those who used to tell him those lies were ashamed. During his
additional days here, the Head of State received and embraced the SDF National
Chairman, John Fru Ndi, to prove to those who were painting a very bad picture
of this man and the Region.
These were people
who were buying and selling the Northwest Region. To me, Biya and Fru Ndi are
politicians who are working for the good of this country. If the CPDM is at the
centre of events today in Cameroon, who knows what will happen tomorrow,
another political party might take over? So, we must not kill ourselves. We
should learn from the British and American democracies. If my idea is bought by
most people, it should be praised.”
Still thanks to
this publication on CamerounWeb Peter Ngufor ventured into his activities as an
economic operator in the following manner:
“the IFG maize
transformation industry was created some 13 years ago to help the unemployed
graduates or jobseekers and ultilise the resources, like maize which is a stable
foodstuff and raw material for breweries.
An agro-industry
and as a development project, Ngufor explained, the IFG was installed with the
factory at Mile 6 Nkwen and opened farms in Ntem Valley in Mbaw Plains, as well
as obtained loans, all in a bid to transform maize, but after two years, the
company was bugged down and could not produce 20 tons of maize that was needed
by the brewing companies.
When the Ministry
of Regional Development, MINEPAT, created a body known as AGROPOLE to sign
partnerships with industries in Cameroon, Ngufor went in body-and-soul.
“This AGROPOLE
under MINEPAT promised to subsidise IFG with FCFA 640 million and we signed
this convention in 2012 with the Minister. I thought heaven had come to rescue
jobless Cameroonians.
But up till today,
nothing is being mentioned anywhere and what baffles me is that there are
representatives of MINEPAT and MINAGRI and when they pass around, they pretend
not to know what is happening. It is shocking that they have the wrong notion
that IFG belongs to Peter Ngufor. It is not Ngufor’s headache. No, it’s our
headache.”
According to this
elite, the company belongs to the Northwest, first, and Cameroons, as a whole.
“If it were Ngufor and family, we could not have been talking about it here.
There are authorities that have visited IFG and seen the factory machines still
quite new, they have never been used and if we (IFG) are not qualified, who
else? Resources are there and are squandered for what does not make sense”
Ngufor, however,
expressed the wish to see the Government act fast and help rescue IFG as they
have “massively intervened in the cases of the Upper Nun Valley Development
Authority UNVDA, Ndop rice factory, MIDENO, GP-DERUDEP and now Livestock
Project known as LIFEDED. To Ngufor, the solution to IFG is with Biya’s
lieutenants not Biya himself.
We have proven at
the Farmers House where I am at the head that we can handle money better than
these civil servants. Look at the successes of the Farmers House when and
wherever I go, I find farmers rushing to give me what they have harvested from
the highly improved or hybrid maize seeds we have been able to produce and
market beyond Cameroon. That is a thing that gives me satisfaction,” Ngufor
stated.
He said Cameroon
cannot boast of food self sufficiency because most people in right places are
doing wrong things. “Agriculture to us in Cameroon is to hold very long
seminars in hotels. No, that is not agriculture, we are supposed to be in the
field not in seminars, jumping from one workshop to the next,” Ngufor lamented.
As concerns
mechanised or second generation agriculture, Ngufor is of the opinion that the
Government should fulfil the promises she made in Ebolowa of creating an
Agricultural Bank to save farmers or those engaging in agriculture from
suffocating under very high interest rates from commercial banks or credit
unions.
While recalling
that some time ago, Government went all out to sell bonds so as to pump money
into agriculture, Ngufor says, up till date, there is no trace anywhere that
the billions envisaged have gone to the agricultural sector.
“Let them tell me
one project that has been sponsored or subsidised? Here, at IFG, we still have
brand new industrial transformation machines, manpower and, what have you,
wasting. Let Government do something so that we can emerge before 2035 as
President Biya wishes,” Ngufor appealed.
Much more recently
in an interview by Francis Ekongang Nzante Lenjo, Publisher of Edev Newspaper,
Nchong Chrisantus of The Horizon Newspaper and Jeff Kinsam of The Info
Newspaper Ngufor Peter reacted to the sociopolitical crises in Cameroon in the
following manner:
“I believed in the Musonge commission created
by President Paul Biya and I expected it to have gone into the field to touch
on the problems of the nation not only in the two Anglophone Regions but should
have gone all over the country to find out problems disturbing the country
because we are not the only ones having problems. The other Regions have
problems peculiar to them. We thought that one year after its creation; the
commission should have been coming out with concrete results. Let the Musonge
Commission be given a chance. Let them work and let them fulfill their mandate
and all the problems will be solved.”
Quizzed on the Head
of State’s declaration that dialogue was already going on, Ngufor Peter said
“it is true that certain things have been done but the solutions to the
teachers’ and lawyers’ problems do not provide a solution to the Anglophone
problem. They should go a little bit further and that commission should have
sorted out these problems and provided lasting solutions to them.”
Commenting
generally on the Head of State’s Speech at the end of 2017, he said “it was
quite elaborate and interesting but I think he should have hammered a little
bit more on the commission he created; that’s the Musonge Commission. I think
he should have gone to the extent of solidifying that commission by causing it
to be inscribed in the constitution of Cameroon. I don’t know why he did not do
that. It’s exactly one year old and they have not been to the field. All they
have done is go to some offices in Yaounde to find out whether both English and
French are spoken there. That’s not the reason why the commission was created.
Till today that commission remains very important and should have resolved that
problem of dialogue”.
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