There is still the Senate for the revised Penal Code to pass through,North West lawyers are now staging a peaceful demonstration against the bill.The Lawyers want the bill withdrawn from the parliament.
The bill that has 370 articles, seeks to update the Penal Code that Cameroon has been using since 1967. Many of the provisions of the almost half a century Penal Code are obsolete and stand at variance with the evolution of time. They are at odds with the current socio-economic and political dispensation of the country.
According to the protesting Lawyers, it is wrong to think that Ministers should have immunity worst still the fact that any judge who tries a minister and sentences him will be sent to jail.
They express their discontent with the new law which says that says tenants who do not pay rents for two months will be thrown in jail.
The Lawyers are also saying that it is hypocritical to say that homosexuality should be fined for FCFA 20 000 if found guilty. Considering the act of homosexuality as repugnant to natural justice, the law users say everyone could be homosexual and careless if dragged to court "after all if found guilty what is 20 000frs."
Source:Concord
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