 The 278 Beti chiefs under Atangana 's control began to oppose his primacy by the mid @-@ 1920s . His control fell especially among the Bane . In 1924 , the Bane filed a complaint against Atangana in court , claiming , " We work always and it is Atangana who receives the money . For all the things that we have sent to the Europeans , such as chickens and eggs , through Atangana , we have received nothing . " They plotted to raise their own paramount chief and to drum up sentiment against Atangana among the common people . The French arrested the plotters for refusing to pay their taxes and provide labourers . This left Atangana still head of the Bane , but his influence had been severely curtailed . 
