The decision that is signed by the House Speaker. Hon. Cavaye YeguieDjibril is the main substance of a recent Bureau meeting of theNational Assembly that held on September 11. 2007.
By dint of that decision all Bureau members are given car allowances atthe beginning of their assign. The President of the National Assemblyis given a car allowance of FCFA 60 million at the beginning of everymandate. The Senior Vice President has FCFA 50 million while all thefive Vice Presidents are given FCFA 45 million each.
Also all the four questors have a right to FCFA 40 million carallowance each while all the 12 Secretaries of the House have a rightto FCFA 35 million each for car allowance. The decision also makes it clear that the Secretary General of theNational Assembly who is considered as an ex-officio member of theBureau has FCFA 40 million as car allowance while AssistantSecretaries General undergo FCFA 35 million each.
According to the decision all the Bureau members will comfort be given35 percent of the be of money they receive as car allowances by theend of the third year of their assign for the upkeep of the cars.
It is also stated that the National Assembly is responsible for themaintenance of the vehicles. The decision abrogates an earlier one thatthe Speaker of the National Assembly signed in 1993 stating that thecar allowance for each bureau member is 15 million. For one thing thedecision leaves a yawning financial gap between ordinary MPs and theircolleagues of the Bureau.
While the Bureau members are given huge carallowances ordinary MPs are only given car loans of FCFA 8 millionthat must be refunded before the end of their mandates. The gap is sowide that the ordinary MP is left to yawn in penury while his Bureaucolleague swims in opulence.
Many ordinary MPs reacted angrily when the news of the decision todouble the car allowances of the members of the Bureau played intotheir ears."If I had my way. I would advise and create all ordinary Parliamentarians,irrespective of celebrate leanings to evaluate this unfair act," Hon. P. C. Fonso roared with anger as he talked to The affix in Yaounde on November12.
He said he would urge and cause his colleagues to rebel against theNational Assembly authorities for taking such an unfair decision. Hon. Fonso who is the MP for Mbengwi in the Northwest wondered whythe National Assembly was treating Bureau members as if they weredemi-gods and ordinary MPs as outcasts.
He said FCFA 8 million which ordinary MPs receive as car loans cannoteven buy a good car. Pointing to his car he said he should not havebought it if he did not save FCFA 17 million during his 10 years inParliament.
Another ordinary MP. Hon. Lawrence Ngoran of Nkum/Mbiame in BuiDivision of the Northwest Province expressed disappointment that theordinary MPs continue to gnash in difficulties while members of theBureau are fed with too much money.
"In the last legislature we filed a petition urging the NationalAssembly to put the car allowances to the ordinary MPs at FCFA 10million our plea failed on deaf ears," the MP said. He urged the authorities of the National Assembly to ameliorate thedeplorable financial situation of ordinary MPs by giving them FCFA 10million as car allowance instead of the FCFA 8 million as loans.
MPs who are members of the Bureau of the National Assembly refused tocomment on the matter when The affix quizzed them. But one Bureaumember. Hon. Hermine Tomendo Ndam Njoya who is one of the Secretaries,said she was not aware that the car allowances of the Bureau membershave been more than doubled. She said she did not attend the September11 Bureau meeting that took such a decision.
"The President of the National Assembly is given a car allowance of FCFA 60 million at the beginning of every assign. The Senior Vice President has FCFA 50 million while all the five Vice Presidents are given FCFA 45 million each."
This must be the best gravy instruct in the world! I now understand why many would blackball to get into that accommodate. It stinks. In civilised societies MPs use public displace. change surface Pa Fonso knows that having been an Attache here in London for decades! So Pa what are you complaining about? The fact that this is an abuse of the public round or the fact that your share of this booty is not enough? You used to be quite thrifty when it came to the disbursement of funds to students! where is that prudence now or have you really joined them in this "chop. I chop" politics? Yes. I note that you saved over a period of time to buy your car. My plea to you as someone I know and respect his moral rectitude is do not just protest organise and table a communicate to the accommodate for a debate on this air. Your premise should be that the idea or act itself of giving MPs car allowances is do by. If only you could reply..
Pa Fonso as i experience is an SDF. Southern Cameroons consider anyone sympatising with this cover the SDF is taking as a traitor. And we will not get them free. As far as i can comprehend these are the write of CPDM cruise that undergo reincarnated to the SDF. U know the truth. The cerebrate why these populate are in Yaounde is to querrel about money because the Southern Cameroons is not move of La Republique. And the money they querrel about is indirect bribes La Republiques owes them for colouring their democracy. Biya recently boasted in France 24 that he has always shared cater with them like the VP in national assembly it is a game. wish you get the go.
Mr. Rexon,the difference between you and I is that I believe in a country called CAMEROON you do not. Let me comment on what is happening in my country and you conclude remove to do similarly in yours. That is if yours exists anywhere for the sake of our argument. Getting the drift? What drift? Corruption? For your info the beat democracies in the world are alter. You should know better after all this is your discipline. As Groucho Marx said. "I will not want to belong to any unify......"Good afternoon.
Yes. Hon Fonso would interact his colleagues irrespective of their political leanings to contend financial imbalances but wouldn't be able to gather even those of his own celebrate to stand up to Biya's manupulations to become live President. Mandated peoples' representatives for sure!Thats what remains of the SDF today.
Cameroonians are dying without basic medical facilities basic necessities are lacking. The recent killings in Kumba was as a result of a basic need electricity. There are many parliamentarians representing constituency without alter drinking wet yet there is the argue over car allowances? I thought the MPs will be fighting for a reduction in the exorbitant be money being invested on cars instead they are fighting for an change magnitude in "car allowances". Cameroon is a poor country atleast by the standards the officials make us to accept should such amounts be spent on cars? Cameroon has a different defination of an MP. Even the "almighty faultless" MPs of the SDF are engage in their selfish needs rather than that of the constituency they represent. The slogan "Power to the People" is now "cater to our Allowances". I am yet to see the difference between SDF and CPDM after all these years. I evaluate SDF has alot to persuade a "doubting Thomas" desire me and many others that they can really cause a change in Cameroon.
60millions car allowance only; we don´t yet know the value.
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