National Assembly : Cybercrime, Roads Asset Bills Adopted

Some three bills on protecting society from cybercrime, safeguarding national roads asset and facilitating access to solar technologies have been adopted at the National Assembly. The legal documents were adopted on April 1, 2022 during a plenary sitting chaired by the Deputy House Speaker, Hon. Mary Muyali Meboka.
The first to be adopted was bill No. 2012/PJL/AN to authorise the President of the Republic to proceed with Cameroon’s Accession to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, adopted on November 23, 2001 in Budapest, Hungary. The Convention aims to harmonise and modernize laws of signatory States, and seek the adoption of a common criminal policy to protect society from cybercrime, notably by adopting appropriate legislation and improving cyber cooperation. Cameroon’s accession to the Convention has some benefits including amongst others, modernization of existing sanctions against cybercrime, promotion of a cyber-security and anti-cybercrime culture, strengthening of its international cooperation and criminal legislation on electronic transactions, electronic evidence and data protection, and improve capacity building programmes of competent national institutions. 
Second to have been validated is the bill which authorises the President of the Republic to ratify the Amended Framework Agreement on the Establishment of the International Solar Alliance (ISA), signed in Yaounde on October 2, 2020. I...