The Post Newspaper reports that this announcement was made by the President of the General Assembly, GA, Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle in a telephone interview.

Ntumfor Nico Halle further said the date for the elections will be made known by the end of August, after which candidates interested in running for the different positions at the elections shall submit their application files.

He told The Post that he will not be the one to go through files because it will be done at the level of the Bar Secretariat.

The outgoing Bar GA president has maintained that following his promise when he took over in 2015, he will not run for another mandate. His wish he said was to make a stronger Bar, by serving his colleagues as their humble servant and he thinks that it is time for him to pass the command baton.

But he has promised that the elections will be free and fair saying, “Everybody knows me for transparent elections. There will be no room for any foul play or corruption.”

 The Douala Elective General Assembly comes after the President had planned for it to hold in Buea.

His two year mandate was supposed to end early February 2017 and he decided that Buea should host the Ordinary GA, he even went to Buea in 2016 to inspect the hall, Chariot Hotel, accompanied by his South West representative, Barrister Kameni John.

But this could not hold as the Anglophone crisis escalated early October with Common Law Lawyers taking turns to the streets to denounce what they described as government’s plan to eliminate Common Law practice.

The GA could no longer hold amid tension and arrests of prominent Association Presidents such as Barrister Agbor Bala of Fako Lawyers Association, FAKLA and escape of North West lawyers Association President Barrister Bobga Harmony.

But since the organs of the Bar needs to be renewed, Nico Halle says it is paramount to do so, that is why the venue has finally been shifted to Doaula. He told The Post that he consulted his colleagues before doing so.