Convenes Emergency Meeting With Top Lawyers, Politicians
In a passionate and deeply frustrated critique of the current governance structure, Foligar Lang, leader of the Cameroon Reformation Party (CRP), has launched a direct legal and political challenge against the continuous management of the nation through what are infamously known as “hautes instructions” (high instructions).
Speaking in the wake of the October 12 presidential election, Lang questioned the very foundation of Cameroon’s elected government, demanding to know where this practice is codified in the national Constitution and why it has become the de facto mode of governance. Lang’s central argument attacks the practice where directives—often imperative and direct orders from President Paul Biya—are not issued through formal channels, but are relayed by close collaborators, notably the Secretary-General of the Presidency (SG/PR), Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh. This system, which often bypasses cabinet and ministerial decision-making processes, has been widely criticized as a breeding ground for opacity, controversy, misappropriation, and “false instructions” not genuinely validated by the Head of State.
“We cannot run a country continuously with ‘hautes instructions.’ This High Instruction is coming from who? When did it come? How did it come? And how long will it last?” Lang questioned, demanding a legal justification for an informal power structure that he alleges “can never resemble a cabinet meeting” to draw benefit for Cameroonians. “Is it part of our decision and choice of Cameroonians to run a country on high instruction? If yes, let’s clearly stipulate it. We are now run by a group of people who cannot be identified in public and who are only warning Cameroonians and wanting to kill and even arresting and tormenting people and killing some of them in jail.”
Lang painted a bleak picture of the post-election landscape, arguing that the country has witnessed no change, no bright future, and no promise of better lives for its citizens, despite the electoral process. “The same day that elections come out… the same intimidation, the same arrests, the same molestation, the same torment, the same warnings to Cameroonians, and even killings have already started,” the CRP leader lamented, recalling that individuals have been arrested and some have died in jail, signifying that “nothing has changed.”
Crucially, Lang raised the issue of the elected president’s visibility and accountability, suggesting a governance vacuum at the highest level.
“We’re not seeing him. We’re not hearing from him. We don’t know where he is. We don’t know his actions on a day-to-day living,” Lang asserted. “It is a legal right of every citizen… to know the legal position and to know the whereabouts of their president. What is he doing? How is he feeling?”
Urgent Call to Legal and Political Minds
To legally challenge the practice of “hautes instructions,” Lang has issued an urgent and very crucial invitation for a meeting with the country’s most renowned legal and political minds. The emergency summit aims to “synchronize out the reason for this high order” and “strongly look into the legal implications of people running this country on high instructions.”
Those urgently invited include:
- Bar. Akere Muna
- Bar. Agbor Balla
- Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle
- Bar. Mbah Eric Mbah (the President of the Bar)
- Bar. Abeng Roland
- Bar. Buh Robert
- Prof. Maurice Kamto
- Bar. Tamfu Richard
- Bar. Claire Bikouna Atangana
- Bar. Chi Paul
All twelve (12) political parties that participated in the 2025 presidential elections.
Lang aims to have these experts “broadly itemize out every section of the Constitution to make sure that these high instructions should stop,” advocating for a future that is “fair for all Cameroonians and equally safe for all Cameroonians.” The CRP leader is even appealing to the international community to intervene and help examine the country’s governance, warning that Cameroon’s future is “going dark and darker.” He insisted that the body running the country must be formally recognized, not operating under “very high instructions we don’t know.”
