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The Post (Buea)
13 March 2008
Posted to the web 13 March 2008
Francis Tim Mbom
The Southwest representative of the Cameroon Bar Council, Barrister Innocent Bonu, has disclosed that the results of the Bar Council Examination written on November 15, 2007, will soon be published.
Bonu spoke to the press in Limbe recently where he threw light on issues related to the Cameroon Bar.According to him, the recent nationwide protest impeded the jury in charge of overseeing the marking and compilation of results from releasing the results last week.
Barrister Bonu said the marking ended by mid-February. He, however, refuted rumours that there was a leakage of the exams. He explained that a leakage could not have been possible on the grounds that the exams are set in the examination hall on the day it is written.
"A jury of seven members meets in the hall and set the exams there. I am yet to understand how a leakage can happen," he maintained.He revealed that some 2345 candidates sat in for the Bar Exams, producing some 5000 scripts to be marked by 31 examiners.
Contrary to fears by some candidates that only 300 would be selected as successful, Bonu said the Bar had agreed with the Minister of Justice that there should be no limit as such.
On the issue of the bid to amend Article 6.2 of the Constitution, Bonu said the Cameroon Bar has not yet taken a position on it.
Bonu, nonetheless, said he was not in favour of any amendment that would go to serve Biya's interest rather than that of the State as a whole."It is wrong for Biya to amend the Constitution at this point in time if it is to serve his own interest. If it is to amend the Constitution so that the national interest will be protected, then it is fine."
On President Biya's address to the nation during the strike action, Bonu held he was stunned by the choice of words the President used on his subjects. "I could not imagine Biya referring to his own subjects as demons," Bonu said.
He proposed that the best option out of the current impasse is for Biya to initiate dialogue with the opposition and civil society leaders.Concerning the sealing of deceased lawyers chambers, Bonu said it was the place of the Bar to seal deceased lawyer's chambers. Going by him, the act was to ensure that every document in it remains in tact until when the Bar appoints an administrator to liquidate it.
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"The office of a lawyer does not belong to the lawyer's family. When a lawyer dies, the Bar has a duty to protect the lawyer's office. The Bar appoints a liquidator who goes ahead to liquidate the said deceased lawyer's office," he said.
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