Cameroon: Parliament to begin June ordinary session on the 8th amid growing social tensions in the country

The second ordinary parliamentary session for 2017 begins on the 8th of June. This information is contained in two separate releases signed this 2nd of June by both the president of Senate, Marcel Niat Njifenji and Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, Speaker of the National Assembly.

 

The releases further provides that the opening ceremony at the  National Assembly will take place at 11am and the Senate later in the afternoon at 4pm.

 

The June session of Parliament as tradition holds, is reserved for the tabling of government and private member bills even though private member bills are never given any consideration since it usually comes from opposition parties.

 

But this June session is very peculiar as the country is presently undergoing a series of Unended sociopolitical and economic stalemates.

 

Members of government who will pass before the law makers will certainly have it hot as they will be expected to give detail accounts on the management of state affairs as the country continue to move from bad to worse.

 

The anglophone crisis which has shattered the country's economy for over 8 months now and  has nearly set the country apart, is yet to find a lasting solution. Schools in the North West and South West Regions remain shutdown and all courts grounded for months now hence paralysing both sectors.More to that, Boko Haram continues inflicting havoc on Cameroon with multiple suicide bombings leaving many casualties in human lives  and properties.  The recent crisis in the education sector where teachers have abandoned their students in class rooms to  go and protest in the streets for non payments of salaries, Medical Doctors and health personnel are frequently on strike demanding better working conditions including the constant demonstrations of ex workers of some defunct state corporations in front of the finance ministry are some of the burning issues awaiting the government bench as the rubber stamp Parliament meet beginning June 8th.

 

It should be noted that the hand clapping Parliament begins meeting one day after the fate of  the 3 anglophone leaders and 25 others must have been decided by the Yaoundé kangaroo military court as they are expected to appear before the judge again on the 7th of this June. Same day the  ordinary general assembly of the higher judicial council to be chaired by its head president Paul Biya will take place at his Etoudi palace.