Rejuvenated Judiciary

The Statement issued at the end of the ordinary session of the Higher Judicial Council that held at the Unity Palace, June 07 said it all. The judicial staff in the country has been significantly reinforced and invigorated. This is one, if not, the key element of the meeting that remains engraved in the minds of Cameroonians. And as faith would have it, this is incidentally reflected in the series of Presidential decrees signed at the end of the session. The decision to refresh the judiciary comes on the heels of the departure of magistrates that attained their age limit for work.  In the same vein, in order to satisfy the needs expressed by the Audit Bench of the highest jurisdiction, about 30 young graduates of the School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM) have been absorbed into the magistracy corps.
Apart from this, the outcome of the meeting of the Higher Judicial Council was far reaching touching almost all aspects of the country’s judicial system. All that matters was discussed in the seven-point confab: oath of office from the newly appointed members of the council, examination of disciplinary files of seven magistrates, absorption of new graduates of the 2015, 2016 and 2017 batches, advancements for 2015 and 2016, promotion of magistrates for 2015 and 2016, designation of a candidate to be appointed member of the Constitutional Council and appointment and transfer of workers in various courts as well as in the Ministry of Justice. All that resulted from last Wednesday’s meeting brought joy to the country’s judicial system especially as the appointment and transfers of magistrates took into consideration the worries and requests concerning the judicial system in the Anglophone section of the country.
Celebration of appointments and promotion has become a tradition in Cameroon. Those who benefitted from it in this sector are certainly in feasting mode. But the whole issue of appointment does not boil down to feasting. Appointment in the real sense is an assignment and promotion recognition of hard work. The 15 decrees signed by the Head of State promoting and transferring staff of the judicial sector is not what some may quickly think entails saying,  “Out with the old; in with the new”; for, this aphorism has often produced some strange results over the years. It is on the basis of this that the youths wh...