I'm also not convinced with Nigel's words that president is fully on our side. All those statements about Felix did not authorize this or that, that he is not happy with Cami are just speculations IMO. If Felix was not happy with Mupande then he could remove him long time ago. If Felix authorized cutting our tenement then he would never admit it anyway because it is simply against the law. Last November he was sitting next to Serge on the stage and was promising us bright future and one year later he is sending his people to AVZ site to check whom he is dealing with? I want to be wrong but it looks like government decided that this tenement is too fat for AVZ and they sanctioned stripping us off a bit. If after New Year Mupande will be still staying in his office then it means they all connected and Felix has his own interest in all this. Few months ago Felix removed and arrested his security chief who was according to press quite dangerous person. So if he really wanted Mupande out.. Earlier I had a different view on all this but now I am more supportive of Wombat's opinion - just give them what they want and let's start mining. If Felix, Nigel or whoever else hiding something then we can't do anything with that unfortunately. This is Africa..
I think this has largely passed Felix by, he is a busy man flying 1st class all over the world telling all who will listen to invest in the next great wonder of the world - DRC
I don't have too much faith in Felix either though, as ultimately this all falls on his shoulders as president, he should be in-country far more than he actually is sorting out his own house before he swans off overseas telling everyone how amazing DRC is to invest an do business in, meanwhile we are under attack constantly by multiple parties seeking their pound of flesh and being stalled at every opportunity.
Apparently, Felix didn't want or even know about CDL being taken off of us. If I was Felix and that was put to me, it's far easier to just agree as Nigel had already agreed to ceding CDL if that was Felix's wish. Seems incredibly counter-productive of Felix to lie about it if he really did want it, to then only order skulduggery to seize it when a simple okay would have done the job?
We want to get a move on and mine,
Like you say this is Africa