There are +180 million People in neighboring Nigeria. The Bamenda ~ Enugu Highway opens up opportunities to the farmers of the West, North West and South West provinces of Cameroon that can literally be transformative in the fortunes and livelihoods of these entire regions. {loadposition myposition}
The biggest hurdle that farmers face now is the wanton government corruption that keeps grants in the pockets of ghost farmers in high government offices, lack of access from the few true farms to this particular highway and an ingrained culture of impunity, tax and spend, that has blinded the government in Yaounde to the transformative value of the Nigerian market to the fortunes of its citizens. In Cameroon, as long as the average government official does not derive a personal gain in any project it is trivialized and subsequently dismissed.
