Fraud Uncovered In the Final Bar Result

          The euphoria that gripped some 1,453 successful candidates into the Cameroon Bar might be short lived and their swearing in compounded, if the recent  unearthing of a “smelling scandal” that characterized the publication of the final result is anything to go by. According to a complain addressed to the President of the Court of Appeal, North West and a copy The Times Journal Procured, some candidates who did not makes it in the written phase of the examination and talk not of the oral parts finally were declared successful in the final results signed and published by the Minister of State, minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals, Laurent Esso.

          According to the complain deposited by one Kameni Pierre Aime  at SCP Fandio-Sandjio & Partners, with head office in Yaounde Biyem-Assi Stade against the State of Cameroon, Minister of Justice, Kameni claims that he has been deprived of his position to make it through in the Bar examination because of fraud. In the complain dated the 3^rd of November, 2014 and received at the Administrative Court for the Center on the 31^st of October 2014, the complainant makes it abundantly clear that some candidates who did not make it at the written part finally were declared successful in the final list published by the Minister as afore mentioned. Some of the names cited in the complain included, Kombou Ngongang Oumegne No. 592, Longo Mandfred P No 644, Mapienfou Mfoubam no. 685  and Mbem Elsa no. 721. In admitting candidates who did not make it in the written part of the examination in the final phase of the examination is squarely against the instruction and conduct of the examination made public since October 2002 and sign by the Head of State.

         Citing other cases of fraud that characterized the written part of the examination like Diwouta Pierre Affair and the fact that some students during the written part were seen with rough notes in the examination room yet nothing concrete was done, the complainant calls for an outright cancellation of the final result as published in order to safe the image of the country and its legal system.

          The publication of the final result in the alphabetical order rather than in order of merits was is another pointer to the fact that something objectionable was cooked up and the list doctored at the detriment of candidates like Kameni Pierre Aime. It is reasonable that the final results of every exam be published in order of merit to show the strength of each candidate. This helps not only in spurring candidates for better competitiveness but also encourages them to work harder in future examinations. The mixed up in the publication of the examination was therefore a tactic to blanket the behind the curtain deals characteristic of all public competitive examinations in Cameroon.