Buea DO begins restituting lawyers’ wigs
and gowns
By Doh Bertrand Nua
 |
| Buea DO, KouamWokam Paul |
After serious pressure mounted on the
government and administrators in the Southwest region, the divisional officer
of Buea, KouamWokam Paul has in a communique signed early this December
revealed that the confiscated robes and wigs of common law lawyers will be
restituted. According to the communique, the DO of Buea is calling on all
common law lawyers whose wigs and robes were seized by security forces on 10
November 2016 within the Buea municipality to pass by his office from December
14 for identification and collection of the said wigs and gowns.
Recall
that striking common law lawyers were brutally beaten and molested by the
forces of law and order as they took to the streets in a peaceful protest to
demand for their rights to be respected. Police officers chased the lawyers all
over the town of Buea, beating them up and confiscating their wigs and robes.
The police even broke into the offices of some lawyers holding the owners
hostage for hours before taking their gowns and wigs away.
Despite
the restitution of their robes and wigs, the common law lawyers have vowed to
continue with their indefinite sit in strike until government provides answers
to their demands.
It
should be noted that the government has finally secured the translated version
of the OHADA law, which was one of the requests of the lawyers.
No comments:
Post a Comment