(Business in Cameroon) - By presidential decree signed on August 1, 2014, the Cameroonian magistrate, Mutanga Benjamin Itoe, (photo) has been appointed as board chairman at Cameroon Development Corporation, the public agro-industrial company and number two employer nationally after the State which has rubber and banana plantations in the South-East region of Cameroon.

He will be replacing Chief Tatah Okia Namata Elangwe, who passed away on March 5, 2014 in Douala, the Cameroonian economic capital. The new board chairman of the CDC is therefore returning to public administration after a long break. Indeed, after a long career on the bench where he headed jurisdictions in the English-speaking part of Cameroon before chairing the Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court, Mutanga Benjamin Itoe was Minister of Transportation (1984), Justice (1985) and Tourism (1989).

However, before assuming his post on the governmental team, the leader of the Bakundu people in the South-East region, was a board member of Caisse nationale de prévoyance sociale (CNPS), from 1981 to 1983.

After leaving the government, the former student of the Lagos School of Law (1967-1968), in Nigeria and the National School of Administration and Judging in Cameroon (1968-1969), was called by the Secretary General of the United Nations at that time to act from 2002 to 2009 as a judge on the United Nations special court for Sierra Leone to judge war criminals. He is now 72 years old.