8 Lawyers Dismissed from Profession for “Fraud”

On July 3, 2018, the last session of the Council of the Bar Association issued a press release, in which the Disciplinary Board examined 34 cases that concerned cases of fraud. The proceeding struck off eight trainee lawyers.

According to a French language publication called Actucameroun, among those struck off are Bengono Armand Didier, Bobga Keneth, Tche Napoleon Che, Famnewk and Mr. Foyet, who have all been purged out of the legal profession on the accusations of possession of fake diplomas.

The continuation of debates concerning nine other files has been postponed to August 25th.

According to media sources, in the wake of it, the lawyers who had filed degrees not corresponding to the license in law, will hang their robes, decided the Council, which retained the incompatibility to continue their traineeship.

It should also be noted that four cases under consideration were those of the leaders of the movement challenging the results of the examination of the end of the internship of lawyers published by an order signed on April 2, 2018 by the Minister of Justice, Laurent Esso.

As a matter of fact, the unfortunate candidates had collectively constituted themselves into a group of aggrieved candidates because they considered that the results of the end-of-probation examinations of lawyers published by the Ministry of Justice were complied on the basis of favoritism.

At the same time, legal proceedings are being launched in the courts for the annulment of the contested results, in addition to having organized a sit-in before the Ministry of Justice, disrupting the activities of the Bar. And in the face of these multiple gaps, the leaders of the Bar Association had announced strong sanctions against these trainee lawyers, accused of being recalcitrant.

In addition, it should be noted that the mandates of the representatives of all the organs had expired since January 31, 2017. For this, the general assembly reiterated its position by affirming the inconvenience of the convening of these assizes with regard to the situation socio-political and security issues in Cameroon.