Human Rights Lawyer and lecturer at the University of Buea, Agbor Nkongho will on Wednesday May 6, 2020 explain himself to a constituted disciplinary panel of Cameroon’s 1st Anglo-Saxon University for alleged bridge of Law.
According to the hearing invitation signed by the Dean of Faculty of Law and Political Science, Prof Atangcho Nji, the barrister allegedly did not comply to professional obligations while setting first semester examination questions for the course Political and Constitutional History of Cameroon (LAW243).
This move by the University of Buea (UB) Authority follows an issued correspondence from Higher Education Minister, Prof. Jacque Fame Ndongo, reminding the authorities of an order to stop all activities of the accused within the said university.
The questions meant for students of the Department of English Law is alleged to be at the origin of the imbroglio as it touched on the ongoing Anglophone crisis in Cameroon’s English speaking regions.
“‘The Anglophone Crisis since 2016 was caused by the lawyers’ and teachers’ strike’. Assess the validity of this statement,” one of the examination questions read.
The African Bar Association Vice President, Director of the Centre for Human Rights & Democracy in Africa is yet to make any comment directly related on the latest developments.
Prior to his hearing invitation before the University Disciplinary Panel, New Upfront gathered that the UB Authority have unilaterally withdrawn all courses taught by Agbor Nkongho Esquire. A decision many criticize as placing the cart before the horse.
Barrister Felix Agbor Nkongho (aka Balla) is one of the frontliners of Anglophone lawyers who had raised concerns over ‘frenchifying’ of Anglosaxon Common Law courts which later transformed into the Anglophone Crisis in 2016.
By Macwalter Njapteh
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