CAMEROON OPPOSITION LEADER AYAH DENOUNCES "ILLEGAL" ARREST OF CONSORTIUM LEADERS

The Chairman of the Peoples Action Party, PAP has slammed the arrest of Barrister Felix Agbor BALLA and Dr Fontem NEBA who were whisked off  yesterday to the GMI in Buea. Ayah Paul Abine who is also Deputy Attorney General at the Supreme Court believes that Consortium members can not be held for acts committed before a law is passed.

This is his argument

"It is an elementary principle of law that a law, especially a piece of criminal legislation, has no retrospective effect. To put it otherwise, a law that comes into effect today, for instance, does not apply to conduct perpetrated before today – before the first moment the law came into force (the law became law).