Senate : Road, Medical Research Bills

The Senate, under the chair of its President, Marcel Niat Njifenji, on April 7, 2022 in a plenary sitting endorsed four bills after scrutiny. The documents relate to the protection of the national roads asset, medical research, innovative solar technologies, and ensuring safe cyberspace. 
Amongst the adopted legal instruments is the bill to authorise the President of the Republic to proceed with Cameroon’s Accession to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. The Convention serves as a guideline for signatory States in the development and modernization of their respective legislations on cybercrime and lays down the conditions for international cooperation and mutual assistance against cybercrime. 
The second is that which prays 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. ISA is indeed an inter-State platform seeking to facilitate access to solar technologies and adequate funding for their acquisition, installation, and operation, as well as long term maintenance. Ratifying the Framework Agreement is fully within the implementation of Cameroon’s national energy policy, notably regarding renewable energy development. 
Another, is the bill relating to the protection of the national roads asset. It has innovative provision...