MRC–Honourable Ngo Issi dispute: Me Sikati calls for a “mental maturity certificate” for legislative candidates

Cameroonian lawyer Me Sikati, who is close to the MRC, criticized a Facebook post by Rolande Ngo Issi, a PCRN deputy for Nyong-et-Kellé and a member of the Higher Judicial Council. Without naming the MRC, Ngo Issi had asked users to identify a party whose militants and officials were supposedly 85% from the same community, and alluded to how members who ask questions are treated. Sikati called her remarks childish and polemically suggested that candidates for parliamentary elections should provide a “mental maturity certificate.” No such requirement is currently established in the electoral rules; Sikati’s response followed similar criticism from Mamadou Mota.