Anglophone Crisis: 14 Resolutions Taken Since the outbreak

Anglophone crisis: the 14 resolutions taken since the outbreak of the crisis

The UN and La Francophonie called for dialogue

Initially, it was a simple demand of teachers and lawyers. One year later, it became a political claim to the secessionists of Southern Cameroon. A revolt that has brooded since 1994 with the creation of the Southern Cameroon National Cuncil (SCNC) which claims the partition of Cameroon. Over the past year, there have been significant loss of life and property damage as a result of clashes between independence and law enforcement. The UN and La Francophonie called for dialogue. 

On 1 October last year, clashes took place in the English-speaking north-west and south-west regions. Leaving several dead. On the responsibility for the tragedy, Yaoundé's power is pointed at and lax in the management of the problem, and the "partitionists" are in order of battle. In Yaounde, "the State and its Head, the President of the Republic Paul BIYA, have defended their position in this field" 

14 resolutions taken since the outbreak of the crisis 

1. The availability of the official version , in English, the Uniform Acts OHADA and the Cameroonian Penal Code; 

2. The creation of an Anglophone Section at the National School of Administration and Magistracy of Cameroon (ENAM); 

3. The establishment of a Common Law Chamber at the Supreme Court of Cameroon, to examine specifically and methodically appeals from the 

Northwest and South-West jurisdictions ; 

4. The creation of a Faculty of Juridical and Political Sciences at the University of Buea; 

5. The creation of the Departments of English Law in the Universities of Douala, Maroua, N'Gaoundéré and Dschang and Departments of Public Law in the Universities of Bamenda and Buea;

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6. Recruitment and placement of appropriate judicial personnel in the North West and South West Appeal Courts; 

7. The appointment by Presidential Decree of an English-speaking Magistrate working within the framework of the Common Law to the post of President of the Judicial Chamber at the Supreme Court; 

8. The appointment of an English-speaking Magistrate as Prosecutor of the Republic at the Bamenda Courts of First Instance and High Court 

9. The creation, by Presidential Decree, of January 23, 2017, of the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism. Materialization of one of the promises of the Head of State in his Message to the Nation on December 31, 2016. The institution thus created complements the state system aimed at making all Cameroonians bilingual men and women and inhabited by the will to live together. It reflects the political vision that makes Cameroon a united, indivisible country and proud of its diversity; 

10. The release of the lawyers arrested and the prosecution of the Bishop of Bamenda and the Pastors of the Cameroon Baptist Convention in the case against the Consortium of parents of missionary establishments, the prosecution of Anglophone leaders Agbor Balla, Fontem, Ayah Paul and others; 

11. The integration, promotion and redeployment of magistrates throughout the territory, taking into account their command of the official language most used in the jurisdictions, without calling into question the irreversible option of national integration, nor the normal evolution of the career of magistrates; 

12. The nomination of two Anglophones among the new general officers of the Cameroonian Army: Brigade Generals Ekongwesse Divine and Agah Robinson; 

13. The dialogue initiated at the beginning of this year through the government missions of information and explanation on the "Anglophone crisis" deployed in the North-West and South-West regions, with the Grand Chancelleries Occidentales and the Cameroonian Diaspora; 

14. Various measures to restore confidence and maintain dialogue, such as the re-establishment of the Internet connection in the North-West and South-West regions; connection suspended on 17 January 2017 in order to preserve social peace and public order at the height of the crisis.

Source: camer.be

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