Anglophone Appointed to Head ENAM Board

The head of state, Paul Biya has appointed an Anglophone to head the board of directors of the prestigious National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM).

The newly appointed Feh Helen Kwnagan, replaces Joseph Malegho Aseh, who has occupied the position for nearly two years.

The presidential decree appointing Ms. Feh Helen Kwangan was made public last Thursday.

On April 11, 2018, President Paul Biya signed a decree reorganizing ENAM. This limited the mandates of the Board of Directors and the General Management to a maximum of six and nine years respectively. At the same time, it established the responsibility of the Chief Executive Officer and his deputy before the Board of Directors, who can now sanction them “in the event of serious misconduct or behavior that could adversely affect the image or the proper functioning of ENAM”.

On a totally different level, ENAM has been in the grip of new formations like the Common Law for almost a year now. This measure is in response to protests by English-speaking common law lawyers. They observed a strike at the end of 2016 to denounce the non-compliance with the legislation in force regarding litigants of the English-speaking part and the application of the French-speaking Civil law in the North West and Southwest courts which are purely Anglo-Saxon in culture.

Paul Biya reacted by instructing the creation of a common law section at the National School of Administration and Administration.

According to sources, this section would be responsible for teaching in English, in addition to the principles of common law, Cameroonian law already unified and residual principles of Romano-Germanic law.