How Nico Halle, Ngnie Kamga mediated peace at NW courts

Henceforth no French language shall feature in Common Law courts in the North West and South West Regions given a consensus meeting that took place in Bamenda recently between Common Law lawyers, the Attorney General of the Region, Bar Council President, Ngnie Kamga and General Assembly President, Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle.

This emergency meeting initiated by the peace-crusader, Barrister Nico Halle, was on the heels of a crisis that almost disrupted the courts because of a decision arrived at during a semester meeting by the Attorney General that submissions in courts should be done in French.

This move to foster peace, reconciliation between lawyers and get the Attorney General reverse the decision on language use in courts, reinstating English, was highly applauded by the public. The swift intervention in a situation that was almost degenerating into a problem of linguistic assimilation has raised the spirits of people in Bamenda and the entire North West Region.

The General Assembly President of the Bar, Barrister Nico Halle, was spotted at the Governor’s office where he spent a considerable time with Governor Adolphe Lele L’Afrique probably to brief him of the outcome of the meeting. There after the Attorney General, His Lordship Abah Ngoh, also went to brief the Governor on the same meeting and the resolutions arrived at.

The General Assembly President, Ntumfor Nico Halle, who is a reputable international legal consultant with expertise in election monitoring and in conflict resolution promised after being elected that he would ensure sanity in the Bar Council.

He made it clear that the General Assembly of the Bar is the highest organ that takes decisions for implementation by the Bar Council executive headed by the Bar President. This was in response to those who were of the opinion that Anglophones have exchanged an elephant for a cricket.