Major National Dialogue :Eric Chinje, Party Leaders Present Contributions

The specificity in the ongoing consultations Prime Minister, Head of Government, Chief Dr Joseph Dion Ngute is carrying out ahead of the Major National Dialogue slated for the end of this month is that on September 24, 2019, he consulted opinion leaders such as Eric Chinje, Barrister Akere Muna. Still in the first part of the consultations on Tuesday morning, the Prime Minister also got the views of political leaders such as Maigari Bello Bouba, National President of the National Union for Democracy and Progress (NUDP) and Banda Kani, President of the New Popular Movement (NPM).

All the delegations received in the morning had converging views in welcoming the dialogue before proposing ways of getting out of the crisis in the North West and South West Regions and how to prepare for the post-crisis period. The NUDP delegation under the leadership of Maigari Bello Bouba came with written proposals, key among which were the fact that the dialogue should be inclusive, known active groups on the field to be invited and assured that they will come freely, express themselves freely and return freely. Banda Kani and the NUDP leader had converging proposals that the decentralisation process be extensive and resources devolved to local authorities supervised to ensure that they meet the development needs of the local population. On the crisis, Banda Kani advised that measures be taken to ensure that ex-combatants do not become a danger to the society and that the humanitarian assistance plan now should be transformed to a reconstruction plan...