Nasako Besingi Explained

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Nasako Besingi is a Cameroonian environmental activist and farmer. He is the Director of the NGO Struggle to Economize our Future Environment (SEFE) located in Mundemba in the Southwest Region, Cameroon.[1]

Activism and arrests

Nasako Besingi has led several protests against the development of palm oil plantations by the Sithe Global Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC), a local subsidiary of the New York-based agribusiness company Herakles Farms threatening to destroy an area of rainforest.[2] The SGSOC had acquired a 73,086-hectare site on a 99-year land-lease deal through an agreement with the Cameroonian government to develop an industrial palm oil plantation and refinery.[3]

Nasako Besingi was arrested several times for opposing the project.

On November 14, 2012, he was arrested along with four of his collaborators at the premises of SEFE in Mundemba, where a group of over 50 community members were prepared for a peaceful campaign against the company Sithe Global Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC).[4]

In 2012, he was attacked by a group of people while serving as a guide to a team of television journalists making a documentary about the conflicts between Herakles Farms Company (SGSOC) and communities of the Mundemba. He wrote a report about the incident and was sued for defamation by the company. On 3 November 2015, he was sentenced to pay either pay a fine of 1 million CFA Francs or serve 3 years prison term.[5] [6]

He was again arrested on 25 September 2017 in the headquarters of his NGO in Mundemba by a large group of police.[7] [8] His passport, documents, phones and computers were seized.[9] He was charged for and charged with insurrection and terrorism.[10] He was detained in jail for two months. On 27 November 2017, the Examining Military Judge in Buea, Cameroon dropped all charges against him and signed the release order.[11]

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: AFP . 26 September 2017 . Arrestation d'un défenseur de l'environnement au Cameroun . Arrest of an environmental defender in Cameroon . 2023-05-02 . . fr.
  2. Web site: Besingi . Nasako . 2013-02-22 . Land Grabbing Looms: New Palm Oil Plantation Threatens Cameroon's Rainforest . 2023-05-03 . . en.
  3. Web site: 2012-12-14 . Campaigners oppose industrial palm oil plantation . 2023-05-03 . . en . Yaoundé.
  4. Web site: 29 November 2012 . Arbitrary arrest of and judicial harassment against Mr. Nasako Besingi and four SEFE collaborators . 2023-05-02 . OMCT (World Organisation Against Torture) . en.
  5. Web site: Akana . David . 2015-11-04 . Environmentalist sentenced in Cameroon . 2023-05-02 . . en.
  6. Web site: Fokwen . Maxcel . 20 November 2015 . Activist Granted FCFA 1.2-million Bail Over Herakles Case . 2023-05-02 . Cameroon Postline . en-US.
  7. Web site: Polle . Benjamin . 26 September 2017 . Cameroun : arrestation du militant écologiste Nasako Besingi en zone anglophone . Cameroon: arrest of environmental activist Nasako Besingi in the English-speaking area . 2023-05-02 . . fr-FR.
  8. Web site: Scholfield . Katy . 2017-09-26 . Cameroonian Environmental Activist arrested . 2023-05-03 . Synchronicity Earth . en-GB.
  9. News: Watts . Jonathan . 2017-09-29 . Cameroon palm oil campaigner arrested in crackdown on activists . en-GB . . 2023-05-03 . 0261-3077.
  10. Book: Berrih, Carole . Sentenced to oblivion fact-finding mission on death row/ Cameroon . Toko . Nestor . ECPM: Ensemble contre la peine de mort (Together Against the Death Penalty) . 2019 . 978-2-95522-646-9 . Paris . 52 . en.
  11. Web site: 2017-11-27 . Cameroon - Nasako Besingi released and charges dropped . 2023-05-02 . . en.
  12. Web site: Philips . Alexa . Williams . Laila Sapphira . Yallop . Alex . 2012-12-20 . Challenging year ends in hope for Cameroonian environmental activist . 2023-05-03 . . en-US.

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