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Subject: Fwd: [cameroon_politics] Re: [AFOaKOM] PM Yang snubs Anglophone lawyers as they protest attempts by govt to kill the English legal system in the Cameroons [1 Attachment]
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Francis Njung <njungf@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:08 AM Subject: [cameroon_politics] Re: [AFOaKOM] PM Yang snubs Anglophone lawyers as they protest attempts by govt to kill the English legal system in the Cameroons [1 Attachment] To: "AFOaKOM@yahoogroups.com" <AFOaKOM@yahoogroups.com>, "cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com" <cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com> The whole system is porous consequently, those calling for a federated or an association of federated states in a union are obviously right. we can maintain our different colonial values while going about as one nation. Assimilation and annexation tendencies can only backfire and lead to a revolution. Once a revolution begins nobody can ever tell what discourse it will take, eg Egypt, Libya, and Iraq to cite a few examples. A majority which think they can crush the Minority should take a good and long hard look at the handwriting on the wall. Normally we sit quietly in our little corners until we are directly touched. When your neighbours house is on fire yours too could likely go same??? On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:06 AM, Polycarp Ndikvu <polycarpndikvu@yahoo.com> wrote: Bravo the members of the BAR, I hope that your BAR does not have beer yet . Anyway, remember to also stand up when these guys are playing with our educational system which you are a product. Stay tuned!. Soul Brother. Because I am involved! Polycarp Ndikvu On Monday, April 28, 2014 12:15 PM, Wanaku <wanaku@kompeople.org> wrote: [Attachment(s) from Wanaku included below] Is this fiction? Again? Comment: Our lawyers are engaging in a losing battle. Forced into a minority position in the context of the Cameroons the Anglophone community cannot dictate to the majority Francophone community what to do. Infact the reverse is true. And if this truth is bitter, the one and only way to avoid it or extricate our community from this untenable situation is RESTORATION of the State of former British Southern Cameroons. But we will pray our lawyers to keep their "whiteman hair" (see picture) in a Museum of Colonial History up in the Fort in Bamenda or in the Prime Minister's Lodge in Buea. The children are watching. ~wv Cameroon Journal, Yaounde, April 25 - A college of Anglophone lawyers stormed the offices of the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals Wednesday to protest what they say is an attempt by the Biya regime to crush the Anglophone legal system in Cameroon. The lawyers, who numbered over 50, were, however, turned away by Philemon Yang, Prime Minister and Head of Government. The protest was a child of a recent decision by the Ministry of Justice to appoint Public Notaries to the Anglophone regions; a situation the lawyers say has never existed in the Anglophone system. To Barrister Bong Divine Asanji of Monie Wakai and Associates Law Firm in Bamenda, the move is an attempt to impose on them an unwanted legal factor which they find unacceptable. Bong said the training of Anglophone lawyers already qualifies them as notaries. This, he argued, renders the idea of appointing public notaries to the Anglophone legal system useless. The lawyers are also picking issues with government for trying to impose the French civil code on the Anglophone legal system which Barrister Bobga Harmony Mbutton says is an attempt to extinct the English legal system in Cameroon. After spending over 30 minutes at the Prime Minister’s gate, they were quietly informed by the latter’s Chief Protocol Officer that the Prime Minister, the only Anglophone on the list of those the lawyers had to meet, was too busy to receive them. The lawyers got infuriated with Yang’s refusal to receive them and immediately resolved that the Prime Minister’s action may push them to get the West Cameroon Bar and the Southern Cameroons state restored. “This is a spring board for us to start restoring the West Cameroon Bar and even the Southern Cameroons state,” Barrister Bobga, who throughout the audiences acted as the spokesperson of the protesting men of law said. Meanwhile, Cavaye Yeguié Djibril, Speaker of the National Assembly who was the first gov’t official to receive the lawyers, recognised the fact that the English legal system was part of the bi-jural system of the country and cannot be tampered with. He reassured them that he will do everything at his level to ensure that their grievances are addressed so as to put the situation to rest. At the Ministry of Justice, they were happily received by even a more friendly Laurent Esso who listened with a fatherly ear and assured them of a consensual resolution that will please both parties. Asked what the Justice Minister’s reaction to their complaint was, Bobga told pressmen that the reception Esso gave them was a complete departure from what obtained at the prime minister’s office; “I think that the minister’s reaction was very constructive; a turnaround of the anticlimax we had at the prime minister’s office. He was very accommodative and very ready to listen to us,” he disclosed. He said Esso, being a magistrate himself indicated that it was not a matter about Anglophone or Francophone legal system but that they needed to put all hands on deck to craft out something that is purely Cameroonian. But a doubting Bobga added that having the numerical strength, Francophones would always want to push their own system to dominate over the Anglo-Saxon system. Hear him: “You know with the politics of numbers; most Francophones will try to push their own. But the justice minister’s open-mindedness assured us that we can make a contribution and assure them that this is what is good from the Anglo-Saxon culture. I tried to anchor a point that in reforming law, we need to look at the sociological and anthropological elements... we shall take what works well and serve our populations from both systems and so it should not have the political stint of rejection of one part...”. Bobga said. End  The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ambasbay" group. 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