For instance, a certain Cabral Libi who is ambitious to become the head of state is already prosecuting for the trampling underfoot of the law ever before assuming office. He is unabashedly demanding to be accorded fifteen days beyond the deadline to enable him to fulfill the requirements for candidacy. He has since been joined in his illegality by one Paul Eric Kingue!
Some persons of the joint enterprise, passing for lawyers, have argued that the deadline for submitting files for candidacy is discretionary because the electoral code makes no provision for any SANCTION for failure to meet the deadline. Whereas this might stand the test of LAY argument, their proposition is merely fantastic at law.
If, by necessary implication, their contention is that a law has no binding force without penal sanction, it is as good as saying that civil law in its entirety is not law. It is absolutely clear that this is wholly fallacious!
It is elementary law that any rule that does not have the binding force is anything but law. Truly, the binding force of the law finds its seal in the consequences that flow from conduct that goes against the law. But those consequences, or detriment as the learned lawyer would professionally call them, can be criminal if it pertains to criminal legislation; or civil otherwise.
In the case in point, namely failure to meet the deadline in depositing files for candidacy, the consequence of noncompliance is the failure of the applicant/aspirant to qualify as a candidate. It is, therefore, erroneous to contend that compliance with the deadline is discretionary on the ground of the absence of consequences.
Some Ambazonians may be quick to dismiss our concern in that it is FOREIGN NEWS. That is not entirely correct. If thousands of Ambazonians have wantonly been killed, it is because the REPEATED AND PERPETUAL non-respect of the law is the basis that provoked the Ambazonian desire to put an end to the de facto coexistence. Hammering out such conduct only does strengthen the Ambazonian case!
THE DICHOTOMY:
On the one hand
LAWLESSNESS AND ANARCHY
On the other hand
FIRM AMENABILITY TO THE LAW