Bernard Muna

He is the presidential candidate of the Alliance of Progressive Forces (APF).

“My case is simple. Cameroon can, and must do better,” Barrister Bernard Acho Muna, candidate of the Alliance of Progressive Forces (APF) in Cameroon’s October 9, 2011 presidential election states in his manifesto. “My vision is one of national renewal of a country with a dynamic and hardworking people, a youthful population full of energy and of purpose, and blessed with a land of abundant natural resources,” he further states.
It will be Barrister Bernard Muna’s first participation in any presidential election. Before his party AFP selected its candidate for the election, some civil society organizations meeting in Bamenda, North West Region, had already declared him their presidential candidate. Barrister Bernard Muna participated in the first ever election in Cameroon as candidate when he led the APF list in the legislative election of July 2007 in the Momo Constituency of North West Region. The twin legislative and council elections came a few weeks after the legalization of the Alliance of Progressive Forces.
Muna became active in Cameroon’s political scene with the re-introduction of multi-party democracy in 1990 as a frontline supporter of the Social Democratic Front (SDF). In the 1992 presidential election, he was the campaign manager of the candidate of the SDF, Ni John Fru Ndi.
Bernard Acho Muna is a barrister-at-law born on May 27, 1940 in Kumbo, Bui Division of North West Region. He read Law in London between 1960 and 1966 and was called to the English Bar in May 1966. He served two terms as the President of the Cameroon Bar Council. The peak of his practice was between 1997 and 2001 when he was Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania.
Emmanuel KENDEMEH