Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. (Cameroon News) – Professor Maurice Kamto has resigned from the post of Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Justice.

The information is contained in a press release published in the front page of Cameroon’s French language private daily newspaper Le Jour of December 1, 2011.

“I have the honour to inform the Cameroon people of my decision to resign from the functions of Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Justice , starting from this day, November 30, 2011”, Professor Kamto declared in the press release.

He further said the decision was not and would never be interpreted as the remittance of the October 9, 2011 presidential election in which he was not a candidate.

Le Jour newspaper reports that the American authorities were proposing Professor Maurice Kamto as the possible successor of President Paul Biya who won 77.98 percent of the votes cast in the October 2011 poll.

In the release, Professor Kamto said he would continue in different ways to make his modest contribution to the exigent and exalting task of building the future of Cameroon in peace and respect of republican values an principles.

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Maurice Kamto born in 1954 in Bafoussam, is a law Professor who entered the Cameroon government in 2004.

He is the current Chairperson of the International Law Commission of the United Nations Organisation and also an associate member of the International Law Institute.