Southern Cameroon’s Bar Council heralded

The Secessionist group, Southern Cameroon National Council (SCNC) has said there is every reason for the reinstatement of the Southern Cameroon’s Bar Council (SCBC).

The statement is contained in a document titled Message to the people of British Southern Cameroon signed by Nfor Ngala Nfor as Chairman of the SCNC.

According to Nfor Ngala “we salute the new awakening, the nationalistic consciousness in the Common Law Lawyers, the Teachers Union, the Commonwealth Journalists Association and the Natural Rulers, among others, that is tearing down the masque, dismantling the Yaoundé imperial propaganda and exposing la Republique du Cameroun annexation and colonial occupation of a former UN Trust territory in the 21st century."

It continued that, the General Assembly of the Common Law Lawyers held in Bamenda mid-2015 at which not even the President of the Bar Council of Cameroons, – a Francophone – was admitted let alone given a voice was an eloquent defense of the distinct identity of British Southern Cameroons.

Nfor Ngala noted that British Southern Cameroons by international law is not and can never become an integral part of la Republique du Cameroun whose boundaries by the principle of an international jurisprudence of uti possedetis juris and critical date became inviolable and immutable on January 1, 1960.He quoted the AU Constitutive Act, Art. 4(b) as a defender of this legal instrument.

He added that the right to the existence of nation states in accordance with inherited colonial boundaries is a matter of law and not political propaganda and sloganeering.

“President Biya’s la Republique du Cameroun may pretend to ignore and run away from the Constructive Dialogue approved by the AU Summit following the African Commission Ruling but it cannot hide from the verdict of the law. “ He writes.

The SCNC letter went deeper to call on the Common Law Lawyers to stand firm both in word and deed while assuring them that the Southern Cameroonian people are solidly behind them for they are not defending self or clique interest but collective interest of a people and posterity.

“The Common Law and the Anglo-Saxon educational system and heritage constitute the soul of the British Southern Cameroons nation which La Republique du Cameroun for its prestige and grandeur cannot put to the torch.” Part of the letter reads.

Then it went on to we laud the dynamic efforts of the Common Law Lawyers, and call on them to formally reinstate the Southern Cameroons Bar Council and take necessary steps to affiliate with the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) and others, adding that “In defending our rights and identity we must be aggressive, seek the open space where free men meet freely and help contribute to the building of a better world and greater humanity.”

“The bottle filled with Beaufort in which Yaoundé has forced and believes it has corked British Southern Cameroons in must be shattered so that we are heard and seen in the council of free men of vision and integrity. We are worth far more than the label and tag put on us by Yaoundé," Nfor Ngala Nfor said.