MAKING SMART DECISIONS – THE SECESSIONIST DECISION PROBLEM
Everyone who have engaged in a serious negotiation understands that a good solution to a well posed problem is nearly always more satisfying than an excellent solution
to a poorly conceived problem. Whereas the Anglophone lawyers and teachers defined some excellent problems facing the Anglophone communities, and separated the people (Anglophones vs. Francophones) from the problems, they failed to stop the many failed secessionist and irredentist movements from hijacking their good cause.
After the secessionists stole the cause of Cameroon lawyers and teachers, any further negotiation was made untenable, because the secessionists frame each issue as a single, rather than a joint search for objective criteria. Moreover, by invoking and declaring the creation of an elusive ambozonia state, the secessionists failed to reason and be open to reason on which standards to choose when negotiating with their government. In addition, the government of the Republic of Cameroon, like any other astute negotiating body, will never yield to pressure, but only to principles.
My simple research points to the fact that the government of junta Paul Biya has been engaging the teachers and lawyers, and actually resolving most of the issues they raised. While all these issues might not be solved in a single day, or be solved to the complete desires of the lawyers and teachers, the inroads made so far is an indication that the government is listening to the chagrins of the Anglophones. Below are some of the actions taken by the regime of junta Biya to fix the Anglophone problem:
Actions already taken and being undertaken by the Government to resolve the concerns raised by the Anglophone Lawyers.-
1) Preparations are underway for the holding of the National Forum on the judiciary.
2) The OHADA Treaty and other OHADA instruments have been published in English.
3) The Head of State has ordered a census of judicial and legal officers of English expression with a view to increase the number of English –speaking judicial and legal officers at this highest court.
4) A Common Law Section has been included at the Supreme Court.
5) A Common Law Section is to be created at the National School of Administration and Magistracy.
6) The setting up of a working group to specify, on the one hand, the contents of curricula in universities, legal courses for the judicial careers and, on the other hand, the content of curricula for the training of student magistrates and registrars.
7) The eminent recruitment of a huge number of Anglophones teachers at the Magistracy and Registry Division of ENAM.
8) The special recruitment of English-speaking Pupil judicial and Legal Officers and Court Registrars over a period of four years based on quotas has been ordered.
9) The programming of the teaching of Public Law in the Universities of Buea and Bamenda.
10) The recruitment of interpreters specialized in courts, pending the results of the special recruitment of Anglophone magistrates and registrars.
11) The continuation, on a transitional basis, of the exercise of duties of lawyers and notaries, cumulatively in the North West and South West Regions.
12) Some judicial and legal officers have been transferred on the Head of State's instructions on linguistic bases.
13) The setting-up of a Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences at the University of Buea.
14) The setting-up of a department of English law in the Universities of Douala, Maroua, Ngaoundere and Dschang, similar to that of the University of Yaounde II Soa and programming the teaching of Public law in the universities of Buea and Bamenda.
15) The setting-up of an Institute of judicial studies to train advocates notaries public and bailiffs.
Augustine Enow Agbor
The outcome of my life is not more than three lines: I was a raw material I became mature and cooked And I was burned into nothingness. Rumi
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