Standing permanently on guard at the fulcrum of competing privatised arms of the state, armed with his suitcase of his rivals' commercial secrets, is a more tedious occupation.

At the moment, standing forest is of little commercial value, and much of it continues to exist only because of laws intended to prevent total clearance of the land.

Many of the buildings now standing in the commercial and tourist centre were built by different clan associations in the early 1980s.