2nd parliamentary session

Senate & N.A. to open Wednesday
By Numh Rogers in Yaounde
Parliament will open for its 2nd session for the 2014 legislative year on Wednesday 11 June 2014.
    According to a communiqué signed by the Secretary General of the Senate, members of the Upper House of parliament are convened in session on Wednesday 11 June, at the temporary headquarters of the Senate at the Yaounde conference Centre.
    By virtue of another communiqué signed by the Assistant SG of the National Assembly, Bernard Wongolo, the lower house of parliament is also convened for Wednesday 11 June.
    Most of the members of the lower house will be returning to Yaounde after making field trips to their respective constituencies to communion with and distribute parliamentary packages to the electorate.

    During her meet-the-people visit to her constituency in Eyumojock sub-division in Manyu Division, Hon. Okpu Susan Ebah Nsosie, for example, distributed various materials including bags of cement, bales of roofing sheets, stand-by generators, cassava grinding machines etc. to representatives of the over 60 villages that make up the constituency. Observers said it was “du jamais vu’ since the coming of multi-party democracy in Cameroon.
Some others like the MP for Fako East, Hon. Etoke Fritz, used the various stop overs he made at different localities in his constituency to also distribute electricity generating plants to some hospitals and food items like bags of rice, salt, sugar etc. to the populations in appreciation for their votes.
    Unlike the members of the National Assembly who were busy doing the rounds in their respective constituencies, no senator ever bothered to also do same. This has left many people wondering what the 15 million FCFA giving them as assistance (whatever that means) is meant for.