Former bar president, Akere Muna urges lawyers to massively join parliament
The former president of the Cameroon Bar Association, Akere Muna has urged lawyers to get into parliament for a better rule of law.
This was during the Ethics and Deontology session which started this week in Yaounde and is organized by the Cameroon Bar Association.
Akere Muna took the opportunity to share with his colleagues and encouraged them to run for offices during the upcoming elections.
“Lawyers must seriously consider entering into elective offices en masse at the municipal, regional and national levels. I have always looked at the American System. Out of the 46 American presidents, only 18 were not lawyers,” Akere Muna said.
According to him, the proposal is the best way for the bar to help guarantee the rule of law in the country as we live in a country where the absence of honesty, fairness, justice and integrity is the heart of the moral crisis we are going through.
He says the very survival of the country depends on how prepared we are as a nation to address these problems.
He also noted that it is almost as if citizens have become insensitive to issues of embezzlement, corruption, blatant conflicts of interest, favoritism, tribalism, and nepotism which have become the order of the day.
He highlighted that Cameroonian lawyers cannot participate in the “conspiracy of silence” hence the reason why lawyers must get into politics amongst other solutions. The idea is for them to get into parliament in their masses, as well as municipal and regional councils to pave the way for a better rule of law.
