To evaluate strike action:

Common Law Lawyers to meet in Kumba

By Johnson Batuo

Cameroon Common Law Lawyers will meet in Kumba, Meme Division, in a forth night to evaluate their strike action, The Median has learnt. The disclosure was made at a meeting of Meme lawyers association, MELA, in Kumba, on 18 November 2016.

                The planned Kumba meeting of Common Law Lawyers was first slated for early 2017. But because of new developments and the vexing insensitivity of the government, the lawyers have resolved to meet in Kumba in a week’s time.

                The Kumba meeting is aimed to also map out new strategies for a way forward.

                The laeyers will use the meeting to discuss the outcome of two separate meetings that their leaders held in Yaounde with Anglophone MPs and the US Ambassador to Cameroon.

                The meeting of the Meme Lawyers Association MELA on Friday 18 November 2016 was held despite the communiqué by the Meme SDO proscribing MELA.

                A senior MELAN who spoke to The Median after the Friday meeting said the Kumba GA would be attended by lawyers from NOWELA, FAKLA and MALA.

                Meantime commercial motorcycle riders and township taxi drivers have expressed their willingness to join the lawyers and teachers strike whenever they are called upon to do so.

                It should however be noted that the Kumba GA was planned before the leaders of the lawyers’ associations met with the Prime Minister, Philemon Yang in Bamenda, on Friday 24 November. We learned that the PM admitted to the lawyers that their grievances are genuine and legitimate, and that the government would respond to them sooner than later.

                Since the strike action started more than a month ago the Lawyers have held information and evaluation meetings in Bamenda, Buea, Limbe and Mutengene.