IRIC: Nyamding and Beaud accused of plagiarism

The plagiarism case at the International Relations Institute of Cameroon (IRIC) has seen a new twist. According to the newspaper Mutations on Tuesday, November 3, 2015, a man living in Europe, who read the article on the subject and ensuing interventions of Pascal Messanga Nyamding on Cameroonian TV is determined to sound a second bell.

"This citizen of the Cameroonian Diaspora showed (full document in support) of Paul Beaud NGouah not Messanga Nyamding accused of plagiarism, because the two "friends" have plagiarized his doctoral thesis presented and publicly defended on November 16, 1996 by Jörg Gerkrath for a doctoral degree from the Robert Schuman University of Strasbourg," the paper said.

According to the tabloid, the thesis of the teacher-researcher born in Germany (who studied law in France), now a professor of public law at the University of Luxembourg (Faculty of Law, Economics and finance) and associate professor of public law of the Faculties of Law in France since September 2000, is titled "the emergence of a European constitutional law. Training methods and inspiration of the Constitution of the communities and the European Union".

This thesis was published as a book in 1997 at the ULB Editions (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) in Brussels. This revelation comes as officials in IRIC in Yaoundé would be trying to find measures to punish Messanga Nyamding Pascal, head of department of integration and cooperation for development.

Speaking Friday night on a TV channel, he himself said the Director of IRIC sent him a request for explanations about it. According to Mutations, until 17h yesterday, Messanga Nyamding had not still responded to that request explanations. He faces, according to Mutations sources at IRIC, a penalty of demotion or removal from the institution's staff.