The President of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement, Prof. Maurice Kamto, will not honour the summons of the Bafoussam Gendarmerie Legion scheduled for today, July 11, because he is out of the country, his lawyer has revealed.
In a letter written to the Bafoussam Legion Commander Abba Saido, Kamto’s lawyer, Tiakouang Meli, requested a postponement of the hearing due to his client’s unavailability.
“Mr. Colonel Commander, we present to you all our compliments and thank you for kindly noting that we are working for our usual client, Professor Maurice Kamto, domiciled in Yaounde Santa Barbara, whom you kindly summoned through third parties on July 4, 2024, to be present on July 11, 2024, at 2 pm,” the letter reads.
According to the lawyer, Kamto had instructed him “to indicate to you that due to his absence in Cameroon for professional reasons, as you will have the pleasure of seeing through the attached document, he requests the postponement of these procedures of your investigation opened against him for a day of the first week of August 2024 of your choice at the time you wish to set by the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure”.
The lawyer added: “Also, we thank you for the good arrangements that you will make to facilitate the making available to us for consultation of the complaint, the grievances, and the documents that are the basis for the opening of this investigation that concerns him. In this happy anticipation, we ask you to believe in our deep respect.”
Prof. Maurice Kamto is currently in the Hague, Switzerland, where he will give an academic lecture on constitutional international law.
The opposition party leader was summoned to the Gendarmerie Legion alongside two other top militants of his party.
This comes at a time when Parliament just voted a bill that will postpone next year’s Parliamentary and Municipal elections, technically disqualifying Kamto’s CRM party from presenting a candidate at the 2025 presidential elections.
