South West lawyers to take legal action against the DO of Buea
Lawyers in the South West region whose Wigs and gowns were seized by security forces last November during a peaceful protest in Buea have vowed to take court action against the Divisional Officer of Buea, KUOAM Wokam Paul and the police who brutalized the lawyers, seized their wigs and arrested some.
Responding to a letter earlier written in December 2,2016 by t he DO for Buea to the Lawyers through the Attorney General for South West, demanding them to come to the office to collect their wigs and gowns, Barrister Ebah Ntoko write sthat by affirming that the wigs were in the possession of the DIO was an indication that he ,Wokam Paul took poart in what he described as “prime suspect in the gruesome crimes committed on lawyers and other citizens in Buea”.
The lawyers have accused the DO and ‘His Anti Riot’ Police of carrying out crimes of torture, assault, deprivation of property rights, violation of the Chambers of lawyers, rape and other issues. The lawyers maintained that one of the principal evidence that will be used against the DO and his anti riot Police will be the wigs and gowns.
The Common Law Lawyers who are still on strike say the issue of wigs and gowns is not at stake now but that once investigations into brutal beatings on lawyers must have been completed, they will each collect their belongings. The sole condition now is the bringing to book the culprits who treated lawyers like second class citizens.
Culled from Cameroun Info.net
23/12/2016 @ 19:57
I think the Lawyers by now should know that Paul Biya and his government can go to any length to murder or render any one invalid. For all this time that the Lawyers’ gowns and wigs are in the possession of these murderers, have the Lawyers not at any moment consider that something sinister might have happened to those wigs and gowns. Let us see, what is it this time, has the government sprayed them with anthrax poison powder? Is it some other poison or biological weapons can slowly cause cancers or incapacitate you into some deadly illness you would never recover from? or are they some listening devices? To be fore warned is to be fore armed. Those wigs and gowns my brothers, are not the same you knew. Use your brains and never ever get those wigs and gowns back on your bodies. After all Ambazonia is here, you will have new wigs and gowns that glitter with respect. I have warned you.
This is also a warning to all Ambazonians, be on your guard and be careful how you mix with these people. It saddened my heart when I heard that our representatives met with Baba Danpullo. Only God knows why the President of a country would rely on a private person who is not official in government to bring him the grievances of the people. Why didn’t that meeting take place on neutral grounds? Did they spray the chairs with any of the above? Well if they start feeling funny, and cannot perform well anymore, they should immediately alert others in the movement so they can be replaced by others. Our cause cannot die it must live on till we win.