While closing the June session, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril urged MPs to continue raising awareness on the need to stay alert and provide necessary information to help fish out terrorists, rebels and bandits.
To the Speaker of the National Assembly, “security challenges in Cameroon are quite daunting” and though defence and security forces are doing a commendable job, Hon. Cavaye nonetheless acknowledged the population “for continuously stepping up their efforts in maintaining law and order through vigilante groups”. And so for miscreants to be put out of their malicious occupations, MPs have been charged with reminding the population on their important role of providing authorities with the required information that would guarantee their safety.
The special plenary sitting of 7 July 2022 was an occasion for Hon Cavaye to praise President Paul Biya’s tact in solving teachers’ grievances and which resulted in the holding of hitch free official end of course exams. Also, the balance sheet at the close of the second ordinary session for the 2022 legislative year was quite impressive. A total of seven (7) bills were tabled, scrutinised and adopted. During the thirty days allotted for the session, MPs met in plenary thrice to question members of government on diverse concerns and areas and to which responses some favourable, others not were provided. According to Hon. Njume Peter, “the session was very engaging but also very interesting. I was very satisfied with the deliberations especially because most MPs were very interested in quizzing the ministers to know more from many of the issues raised in some bills”. To him, Bill No. 2021/PJL/AN to ratify ordinance no. 2021/1 of 2 June 2022 to amend and supplement some provisions of law no. 2021/26 of 16 December 2021: finance law of the republic of Cameroon for the 2022 financial year was the most pertinent. “This bill was an ordinance from the President of the Republic to fix the economy by improving on the financial situation so as to keep Cameroonians at a stable condition despite the impacts caused by the difficult socioeconomic atmosphere and the constraints imposed on us by external forces” he added.
Hon. Ngalle Daniel for his part was disappointed that the budget orientation debate did not hold as expected because they were not given time to study it adequately. He nonetheless was happy with the bill that would ease the procedure to obtain visas to Cameroon, which before now had several bottlenecks. As the people’s representative, informing the population on the happenings at the National Assembly is important, reason he added “I will be going back to my constituents to relay what we did in Parliament and the impact of the bills adopted on their lives. I will also reach out to them, know their worries and ferry them to the right quarters for solutions”.
Claudette CHIN
