63 Pupil Barristers otherwise known as Advocates-in Training, have been sworn in Kumba, Meme Judicial Division, with a call on them to perform their duties in total independence, with dignity, conscientiousness, probity and humaneness in accordance with the ethics of the noble profession and the Laws of the Republic.

The swearing in cum oath rituals took place at the court room of the Meme High court in Kumba recently, presided over by the President of the court, Justice Gang Georges, assisted by Justice Egbe Esther and Akwo Essembe respectively.

In his submission, the Learned State Council for Kumba, Justice Afah Emmanuel Annah disclosed that, the 63 Advocates in Training were successful candidates of the Bar I Examination that was launched by the Minister of State Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals in February 2014.

He hinted that the swearing in is in accordance with the 1990 law organizing practice at the Bar. The State Counsel observed that all 63 pupil Barristers have fulfilled all the conditions as enshrined in the law organizing Practice at the Bar and thus qualify to be sworn in as such.

On his part, the Special Representative of the President of the Cameroon Bar Association for Manyu, Meme and Lebialem, Barrister Nzoh Mbokeh Divine, attested in his submission that the exercise was in accordance with the law. He went down memory lane to narrate the road leading to the great event.

While cautioning the Advocates on the need to respect the oath of the profession as spelled out in article 15 of the law organizing practice at the Bar, he urged parents of the new wigs to continue to support them for the next two years during training.

The Representative of the Advocates in Training, Pupil Barrister Esseme Moses Essambe on behalf of his colleagues, thanked the government of Cameroon especially the Cameroon Bar Association, for making it possible for them to join the Bar Roll. He promised total frank collaboration with the judiciary, and to live by the ethics of the corps with the respect of Seniority.

Earlier on during a thanksgiving service that took place at PCC Kumba town, the Kumba Presbytery Secretary, Rev. Dr Njie David King, hailed the new pupil Barristers for having made it at the Bar.

He urged them to continue to pray to God to give them the grace so that they can surpass the training period which he understand is very challenging.

One of the sworn-in Advocates in Training, Talla Aghaa Christopher of Eyambe-Ebai Law Chambers Kumba, who until the oath taking event was a Journalist and Kumba Bureau Chief Correspondent with The SUN, one of Cameroon’s leading English Newspapers, expressed joy to The SUN, that he has finally achieved his long time dream to act as Defense Counsel or Legal Adviser.

He pledged to work in the ambit of the code of the profession so as to be classed amongst the refined Advocates in the world. He equally showered praises to his Pupil Master Barrister Eyambe Elias, for the intellectual support and to the The SUN Newspaper crack team headed by its Publisher and Managing Editor, Wasso Norbert Binde, for their encouragement and financial support in seeing him sail through.