Re: MAKING SMART DECISIONS – THE SECESSIONIST DECISION PROBLEM

Mr. Agbor Enow:

If those guys were not locked up, all these will have been behind us. Because the Gov't would have engaged in providing what was requested and that would have settled everything.

Why blame everyone else except the one with the Cake and Knife who is held in high standards to negotiate with its cutizens? You are not being fair or objective in your analysis.

We are tired of the one-sided blame game.

--Concerned Citizens.

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Date: Fri, Aug 18, 2017 5:10 PM

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Subject:MAKING SMART DECISIONS – THE SECESSIONIST DECISION PROBLEM

MAKING SMART DECISIONS – THE SECESSIONIST DECISION PROBLEM

 

Everyone who have engagedin a serious negotiation understands that a good solution to a well posedproblem is nearly always more satisfying than an excellent solution

to a poorly conceivedproblem. Whereas the Anglophone lawyers and teachers defined some excellentproblems facing the Anglophone commu nities, and separated the people(Anglophones vs. Francophones) from the problems, they failed to stop the manyfailed secessionist and irredentist movements from hijacking their good cause.

 

After the secessionists stolethe 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 searchfor objective criteria. Moreover, by invoking and declaring the creation of anelusive ambozonia state, the secessionists failed to reason and be open toreason on which standards to choose when negotiating with their government. Inaddition, the government of the Republic of Cameroon, like any other astutenegotiating body, will never yield to pressure, but only to principles.

 

My simple research pointsto the fact that the government of junta Paul Biya has been engaging theteachers 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 thecomplete desires of the lawyers and teachers, the inroads made so far is anindication 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 theAnglophone problem:

 

Actions already taken and being undertaken by theGovernment to resolve the concerns raised by the Anglophone Lawyers.-

 

1)      Preparationsare underway for the holding of the National Forum on the judiciary.

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2) &nbs p;   TheOHADA Treaty and other OHADA instruments have been published in English.

 

3)     TheHead of State has ordered a census of judicial and legal officers of Englishexpression with a view to increase the number of English –speaking judicial andlegal officers a t this highest court.

 

4)     ACommon Law Section has been included at the Supreme Court.

 

5)     ACommon Law Section is to be created at the National School of Administrationand Magistracy.

 

6)    Thesetting up of a working group to specify, on the one hand, the contents ofcurricula in universities, legal courses for the judicial careers and, on theother hand, the content of curricula for the training of student magistratesand registrars.

 

7)     Theeminent recruitment of a huge number of Anglophones teachers at the Magistracyand Registry Division of ENAM.

 

8)    Thespecial recruitment of English-speaking Pupil judicial and Legal Officers andCourt Registrars over a period of four years based on quotas has been ordered.

 

9)    Theprogramming of the teaching of Public Law in the Universities of Buea andBamenda.

 

10) The recruitment of interpreters specialized incourts, pending the results of the special recruitment of Anglophonemagistrates and registrars.

 

11)  The continuation, on a transitional basis, of theexercise of duties of lawyers and notaries, cumulatively in the North West and SouthWest Regions.

 

12) Somejudicial and legal officers have been transferred on the Head of State'sinstructions on linguistic bases.

 

13) Thesetting-up of a Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences at the University ofBuea.

 

14) Thesetting-up of a department of English law in the Universities of Douala,Maroua, Ngaoundere and Dschang, similar to that of the University of Yaounde IISoa and programming the teaching of Public law in the universities of Buea andBamenda.

 

15)  Thesetting-up of an Institute of judicial studies to train advocates notariespublic 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