President Biya orders withdrawal of French speaking Judges from Anglophone Cameroon

The President of Cameroon Paul Biya has partially granted some of the demands of Common law Lawyers in Cameroon. While presiding at a meeting in Yaoundé Tuesday, the minister of Justice and keeper of the seals, Lauren Esso announced that the Head of state has decide to redeploy all Francophone Magistrates exercising in Anglophone zones without a common mastery of English, back to Francophone zones.

He also said the Head of State has instructed his close collaborators to prepare an eminent holding of a National Judicial Conference which will group stake holders in the sector to seek for lasting solutions to series of problems posed by lawyers of the Anglophone Extraction.

Earlier the minister lambasted Common law lawyers for protesting on streets of Buea and Bamenda, to him the action was illegal and perpetrators need to be punished. The minister asked the lawyers to respect the wigs and gowns they wear.