THE WORLD BANK PULLS OUT OF THE CHAD-CAMEROON PIPELINE

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The World Bank has finally pulled out of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project years after repeated campaigns against the project by Human rights organizations and environmentally orientated NGOs.

This pull-out is another prove of the nightmare of having to do business with Despotic regimes and another confirmation of the need for tougher stance by Institution against all dictatorships, for as soon as any project is defined to empowered the public, despite initial acceptance, lots of dictators (especially those of Francafrique) almost immediately start violating the defined regulation as soon as they sign them.

Yet the Bank has to take responsibility for it's repeated support of dictators with the excuse that sanctions or tougher stance will be translated to the populace.

In this case it is particularly despicable that the Bank that does financial evaluation of economies of countries to know their capacity to repay debt was unable to evaluate it's own capacity and that of it’s partners in this case Chad to sick by agreed regulations for a project of this magnitude (Chad-Cameroon pipeline); especially with the massive if not disastrous environmental consequences for the communities in the area once the project started. The incapacity of the Francafrique dictatorship in Chad to stick by the originally agreed parameters which defines community interest and puts in place checks and balances to carter for the concerns raised about the project by all parties involved at the project inception; like the incapacity of his Cameroonian counterpart was definitely a given, checking from the records of both regimes.

The last crisis was provoked by a unilateral decision by Mr.Deby's regime to change the special law on the administration of petroleum revenues. The new changes will allow the Chadian regime to use a big chunk of money from Petroleum sales to buy weapons as they had been trying to do all this while. That smell’s very much like the biggest arms supplier to Chad and effective controller of the economy of Chad-The French-;had miscalculated the commitment of the Human rights groups and NGOs involved in the discussions to watch every development that is related to the project every step of the way.
The local population is of course the biggest losers in this all. The Lands and property has already been destroyed by the building of the project that has been going on the last coupe of years. Now all the programs and projects that were set to re-habilitate the land and empower the indigenes are all not yet in place and the Land cannot be returned to it’s original state when it served as the main source of income and survival of the communities concern . We hope that Bank will be able to show itself as the strong organization it ought to be by initiating a new project that will force on the Chadian regime and all benefactors or to be benefactors of the pipeline, who are responsible for this massive environmental destruction to compensate the inhabitants enough to at the least get their lives restarted along different trajectory.

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