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| Hon Cavaye |
The June session according to political affairs observers is one of the
most relaxed amongst the ordinary session of a legislative year. It is
traditionally reserved for the examination and adoption of bills submitted to
the National Assembly and the senate by government ministers.
Since the coming to stage of the Senate some two years ago, bills adopted by the National Assembly have
been forwarded to the upper house where competent commissions have had to
‘strictly’ check before moving up the
ladder for promulgation into law by the President of the Republic.
While the heads of the two legislative institutions would in their
separate opening speeches, review the activities of both houses during the
parliamentary recess period, it would likely touch on the state of relations
between the executive and legislative arms of the State plus, ongoing war
against terrorist group Boko Haram.
During the last session, the senate announced a FCFA 100Million donation
as part of their contribution to the ongoing war efforts against Boko Haram.
Observers are of the opinion that the donation was simply rhetorical as nothing
has been heard about it since then. The national assembly on its part donated
the sum of over CFA 45 million F as support to the fight.
Members of parliament would also be exchanging notes from the field
after the recess period that permitted some to visit their constituencies and
commune with their electorates. Though critics say some of them visit their
constituencies only during elections and come back only after five years.
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| Senator Niat |
Hon Roger Nkodo Ndang, CPDM MP for Nyong & Mfoumou and secretary at
the bureau of the national assembly who until recently was vice president of
the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) was elected president of the South African
based legislative house. Hon Njingum Musa, another CPDM MP from Ngoketunjia was
also elected chairperson of the committee on Monetary and Financial Affairs of
the PAP.
The new president and chair person of the Monetary and financial affairs
of the South African based Pan-African parliament were last week received in
separate audiences by the speaker of the national Assembly, Hon Cavaye yeguie
Djibrill and the president of the Senate, Senator Marcel Niat Njifenji.
During the last session, the lawmakers, besides the election of the
bureaus of both houses, adopted seven bills on various subjects such as the
economy, security and the three-year growth-acceleration emergency plan
initiated by the head of state, Paul Biya.
The second ordinary session of the 2015 legislative year will be opening
at threshold of the much trumpeted digital switch over from analogue to digital
broadcasting in Cameroon. Cameroonians households are expected to replace their
analogue TV sets with flat-panel screens or get decoders before or on the 16th
of this month.
Defending a bill on digitization of Cameroon last March at the national
assembly, the Minister of communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary the digital
switch over will go effective from June 17 this year.
It is expected that peoples’ representatives would call up the communication
boss again during this session to brief them on the process which he announced
will begin in Douala and Yaounde before gradually extending to other areas.
The ordinary session both at the national assembly and the senate is
expected to last 30 days.
By Ndi Eugene Ndi
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