BARISTER NGAM HONORE AJUO REPRESENTS NWR AND BOYO DIVISION IN THE HUMMAN RIGHTS COMMISION OF THE BAR



 
BARISTER HONORE AJUO NGAM
According to a latest decision signed by the president of the bar council of Cameroon appointing officials of the human rights commission of the bar council, Barrister Honore Ajuo Ngam is the lone advocate from the north west region that have been appointed into the special commission to advice the bar council and its president on human rights issues at regional and national level. The decision signed by Me J. Ngnie Kamga, president of the bar council names barrister Honore Ajuo Ngam member of an eleven man committee with regional representation. The committee will have as a major function to monitor and follow up the promotion and protection of human rights and advise the bar council and the Batonair on issues of human rights. This will enable the bar council to report extensively on human rights in Cameroon. According to Honore Ajuo Ngam, his appointment into this special committee falls in place with his rich experience in human rights issues and educational prowess. In the days ahead,  the committee will have as mission to coordinate activities within the committee through regular meetings at various levels aimed at addressing issues relating to human rights.
Commenting on the recurrent human rights issues in the region, Honore Ajuo Ngam frowns on the complete failure in the provision of social services to the population citing cases of incessant power outages without prior notification, poor state of the roads into and within the region, arbitrary arrests and detention of Cameroonians as some of the issues him and the entire committee members will be making strides in attempting to remedy. Honore Ajuo Ngam called for the bill of rights in 2011 with the believe of pressing for constitutional entrenchment of human rights in Cameroon wherein cases can be enforced in the court of law. This as even with the constitutional council still on paper victims of human rights could be ignored blatantly
Barrister Honore Ajuo Ngam, the University of Buea trained advocate is a practicing lawyer in the region working with the crown law firm as Attorney and managing partner who hails from Boyo division of the North West region. He backs a MA1 in human rights and humanitarian action from the catholic University of Central Africa Yaounde and a post graduate Diploma in law from the University of Dschang as well as a bank of knowledge acquired through multiple seminars and conferences attended nationally and internationally on human rights advocacy. He has worked as executive director of Cameroons lawyers for human rights, a versioned founding member of the Cameroon lawyers for human rights, member of the Cameroons bar association and common law society of Cameroon and a constituent member of North West lawyers association.


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