18 New Lawyers sworn into Cameroon Bar at Bamenda Court of Appeal

18 new Advocates of the Cameroon Supreme Court-cum-members of the Cameroon Bar Council took their oaths on Friday November 23 at the Bamenda Court of Appeal.

The newly sworn in Advocates of the Supreme Court and Members of the Cameroon Bar Council were reminded that the doors of the Court of Appeal will always remain open for them and that they should not hesitate to come and seek for counseling on any legal issue. “It shall be our pride if some of you if not all of you become big names in the Cameroon Bar and we therefore wish you success as you begin this journey of a thousand miles today.”

Having taken their oaths they were declared and enrolled as Advocates of the Supreme Court of Cameroon and as Members of the Cameroon Bar Council with residence in Bamenda and Kumbo. The hundreds of family members, friends and well wishers who turned out were informed that the proceedings of the solemn session would be drawn up and filed in the archives of the court. The order was to be executed forthwith immediately registration took place.

Speaking on behalf of Barrister Henry Kemende representative of the President of the Bar Council, Barrister Ngek John  Ngala said “It is a plus to the Bar Council to have these 18 Lawyers. If you can deliver 18 children in your family in one day, it would definitely be a plus and it is as we have Lawyers from the Nigerian and Gambian Law School and those that have been groomed here in the country. All of them presented their certificates of call to the Bar and personally I will not be able to evaluate them at this level but I will want to say that there is an adage that every brick layer is known at the walls of the house where he is building and I am very confident from the way they took their oaths that they will be up to the task.”

    

One of the newly sworn in Advocates of the Supreme Court and Members of the Cameroon Bar Council Lawyer Yunwe Henry said after having been sworn in as Lawyers they had a duty to protect the rights of the citizens of the country. “In Cameroon today there are many people who are detained for no just reason. As lawyers we now have to implement the Law and as such determine whether somebody has been detained justly or unjustly.” As a Cameroonian he said he was very happy to have been sworn in as a member of the Cameroon Bar.

Lawyer Teke Oscar Teke, one of the newly sworn in Advocates said they were being sworn in against a very challenging landscape. He however said he was determined to contribute his own quota towards transforming the way things were done like shifting away from manual to much more electronic approaches in the way certain things were done.  

 By Francis Ekongang Nzante

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