Aimee Justine Ngounou, Attorney General at the SCC

During a ceremony in the hall of the Centre Court of Appeal on Friday, October 9, 2015, Aimee Justine Ngounou will be formally sworn in as Attorney General for the SCC.

Appointed 28 July 2015 through a presidential decree, the judge replaces Emile Zéphyrin Nsoga, who has gone on retirement.

Before her appointment, she was the Attorney General of the North Court of Appeal. Born April 28, 1960 in Nkongsamba, Aimee Justine Ngounou has spent most of her primary and secondary education in the city, before joining the University of Yaounde in 1979.

After obtaining a Master of French in Private Law, she joined ENAM in 1983 where she graduated from the Judiciary section in 1985.

Her professional career began in the East, where she took her first steps as a prosecutor at the law courts of Bertoua, then Mbanga as deputy prosecutor at the trial court. She was prosecutor in the same jurisdiction from 1988 to 1994 and then moved to the court of Bafoussam in 2001 where she was promoted to Vice President of the Littoral Court of Appeal in Douala.

Prior to her appointment in 2010 as Attorney General at the North Court of Appeal, a position she held until 28 July, the Attorney General of the Special Criminal Court has altogether thirty years of experience which is mainly in the fight against corruption.

After speculations of the arrest of ministers sacked from government, it is obvious that the installation of Aimee Justine Ngounou will cause less sleep for dishonest public account managers.