Shey Jones replaces Paul Tassong at CEMAC Commission

Former secretary of state for public works and Board Chairman of the National Civil Engineering Laboratory, Labogenie and the Douala Autonomous Ports Authority, Shey Jones Yembe, has been appointed Commissioner of Cemac. He was appointed by the Heads of State of the Cemac sub-region during their extra-ordinary summit that ended on Tuesday, 31st October 2017, in Ndjamena, Chad.

            Also the CEO of MAG LLC Construction Company, Shey Jones replaces Paul Njukang Tassong as the Cameroonian representative at the Cemac Commission.

            This discreet and self-effacing graduate of the National Polytechnic Yaounde and the University of Essen, Germany, had also served as Director at the General Directorate of Grand Travaux in Yaounde.

            A staunch supporter of the ruling CPDM party, Shey Jones hails from Donga Mantung Division of the NW region.

             Apart from the appointment of Shey Jones, other major resolutions of the Njamena Extra-Ordinary Summit include the cancellation by the Heads of State of 90% of the accrued arrears of the regional integration tax owed by member countries of the Cemac Commission and the obligation of member states to pay up the remaining balance to enable the Commission and its subsidiary institutions to function properly and harmoniously.

            It should be recalled that the regional integration tax (Tax Communautaire d’Integration TCI) was instituted in 2000 to reinforce integration in Cemac. But over the passed several years the member states have not been paying their quota of the tax collected to the Commission. Today the accrued arrears of unpaid TCI is to the tune of FCFA 250 billion.

            Also the Heads of State finally adopted the Additional Act No 01/13 of 25 June 2013 bearing on the opening of frontiers by member states. To facilitate free movement of goods and persons across borders, member states that had not yet adopted the Cemac Biometric Passport were urged to do so.