provided for by the Criminal Procedure Code. As such, the Respondent State concludes that local remedies are indeed effective. 42. Regarding the Complainant’s obligation to take steps to exhaust local remedies, the Respondent State calls on the Commission to examine the consistency of such efforts. In response to the local procedures alleged to have been followed by the Complainant’s husband, the Respondent State submits that no relevant evidence was submitted in the Communication file. The Respondent State further submits that the failure to come to Cameroon in person to file the complaint may simply be interpreted as a refusal to exhaust available remedies. 43. Cameroon states, in connection with the steps allegedly taken by the Complainant, that investigation conducted by the Government at the mail service of the Ministry of Justice, the Registry of the Mfoundi High Court in Yaoundé and the Office of the State Counsel of the said court produced no trace of the letters the Complainant alleges to have been sent to the Minister of Justice and the State Counsel of the Mfoundi High Court. 44. The Respondent State concludes that in view of its arguments, local remedies are available but the Complainant’s husband did not take steps to exhaust them, and that under these circumstances the Communication should be declared inadmissible on grounds of non-exhaustion of local remedies. Analysis of the Commission on Admissibility 45. The Communication was submitted in accordance with Article 55 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights under which the Commission is mandated to receive and consider “Communications other than those of State Parties.” To be declared admissible, Communications have to meet the conditions under Article 56 of the African Charter. 46. A consideration of the above arguments and facts suggests that the parties are in agreement on all the admissibility conditions laid down in Article 56 of the African Charter, with the exception of the exhaustion of local remedies. It also appears to the Commission that, with the exception of the exhaustion of local remedies, the conditions laid down in Article 56 have all been met. 47. The condition of the exhaustion of local remedies is laid down in Article 56(5) of the African Charter as follows: in order to be considered by the Commission, Communications must be “sent after exhausting local remedies, if any, unless it is obvious that this procedure is unduly prolonged”. 9