Re: Three Prominent Barristers Locked Up in the South West Region

That is good one day all of you Barristers will be bundled and lucked up for you in particular Sama Francis you have sold your soul to the devil by refusing to fight of join the liberation forces.

Look Sama Francis you are running that your dirty mouth just be rest assured that your own day is coming, Nyam

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Mishe Fon <mishefon@yahoo.com> wrote:

For allegedly "blocking" the roadside when the SDO (Prefet) was driving-by to install a Mayor, his subordinate, Tiko District Officer (DO/Sous Prefet) took the Law into his own hands (as usual) and locked up three prominent S.W based Barristers, who by happenstance were lurking in the vicinity of the "Prefectoral" Convoy. They are: Maitre Innocent Bonu, Maitre Benjamin Enow and Maitre Peter Tumnde. The Cameroon Bar Association has called for a Strike Action to paralyze Judicial proceedings until the "D.O" is "Fired" and this must happen before the arrival of the Head of State in the South West to celebrate the "Unification" of Francophone and Anglophone Cameroons.

Read ercerpts here culled from Postnewsonline.

The President of the Bar Council, Barrister Francis Sama, condemned the detention of three senior lawyers in Tiko on Saturday, November 23, as "illegal and unacceptable."
 

"We shall seek audience to meet the Head of State before his arrival in the Southwest Region to present the plight of the ordinary Cameroonian citizen, including advocates at the hands of a few irresponsible and unscrupulous administrators," Barrister Sama told pressmen. He went on to state that the sit-in strike called by lawyers in Fako Division had been upheld and shall be observed in the whole of the Southwest Region from Monday, December 2.
 

He, however, stated that the Bar Council had resolved that the strike be observed but for two days instead of the five days initially decided by the lawyers. Barrister Sama insisted that they were bent on seeing that the DO of Tiko is punished for his actions. The legal practitioners argued that the DO acted at variance with the law when he unilaterally decided to detain Barrister Peter Tumnde, Barrister Innocent Bonu and Barrister Benjamin Enow at the Tiko Gendarmerie.
 

"At a time when the entire nation is looking up to the Southwest Region to celebrate the Re-unification Anniversary, it is inadmissible that a Sub-divisional Officer can provoke the disturbance of the peace by illegally arresting and locking up Advocates of the Cameroon Bar Council," Sama argued. The DO is said to have arrested and locked up Barrister Tumnde on grounds that his vehicle obstructed the convoy of the SDO of Fako as it was speeding through town to go and install the Mayor of Tiko.
 

The Post gathered that Barrister Tumnde told the Bar he did not hear any sirens or any thing to alert him a convoy was way behind him. Judging that his act was deliberate, the DO, who received the SDO in his jurisdiction, decided on throwing Tumnde behind bars. Barrister Bonu, who is the Bar Council Representative for the Southwest, upon learning of the incident, went down to intervene and the DO is said to have bundled him as well into the cell alongside Barrister Enow who had accompanied Bonu.
  

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