2nd Ordinary Session:

Parliament Opens amid Covid-19 Scare

Senate President, Marcel Niat Ndjifendi

The Senate and National Assembly have opened for the Second Ordinary Session (June Session) of the 10th legislature with a note of satisfaction for the reopening of schools and resumption of other socio-economic avtivities that were shutdown with the coming of the covid-19.

                Members of the two chambers of parliament started meeting Wednesday, at the make-shift parliament building, at the Yaounde Conference Centre.

                Opening the Senate,  its President, Marcel Niat Ndjifendi, hailed the government for the clairvoyant handling of the spread of the global covid-19 pandemic.

                Also opening the National Assembly earlier in the day, the House Speaker, Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, observed with satisfaction measures taken by president Biya to roll back the spread of covid-19 in Cameroon. Cavaye Yeguie saluted the creation of the National Solidarity Fund, noting that the National Assembly will leave no stone unturned in its effort to accompany the government in its fight against the global pandemic.

                Neither the Senate President nor the National Assembly House Speaker revealed what will be top on the agenda in this June Session of Parliament.

                But they informed that the two houses of parliament would be meeting in Congress in the days ahead, for the oath-taking ceremony of a member of the Constitutional Council, Prof. Joseph Owona, who was recently co-opted into the Council by the Head of State.