Cameroon: Bar exam results expected this week

Barrister Francis Sama Asanga

Cameroon Headlines, Buea, July 3 - Francis Sama Asanga, President of the Cameroon Bar Association has hinted that the results of Bar part I exams could be released this week. He said the delay in the release of the results was as a result of the passing unto glory of barrister Innocent Bonu, who played an instrumental role in the organization of the exams.

His words: “In the days ahead, by law, the results of Bar Part I will be published by an order of the Minister of State, Minister of Justice.”

The President of Cameroon’s Bar Association was speaking shortly after the Ordinary General Assembly, Saturday, June 28, organized for the first time in Buea.

He used the occasion to thank the Ministry of Justice and the Bar Association for organizing the Bar Exams in 2014.

According to Barrister Sama, “the results of the Bar part II exams had been long published and the lawyers are already being sworn in, beginning with those of the North, last June 26, in honour of late Barrister Aboubakar. Those of the South West will also be sworn in to honour the memory of late Barrister Innocent Bonu.”

Sama dispelled rumours that the Bar exams were marred by financial corruption scandals. He insisted that the exams were organized in all transparency and fairness.

Reacting to gossips suggesting that he and late Barrister Bonu had opened an account into which candidates who sat the bar exams paid the bribe money, Sama said “If anybody gave a bribe to the late Barrister Bonu or to me, that person should come out publicly and say it.”

Sama promised to take legal action against rumourmongers who are trying to assassinate his character.