Parliament : Eventful March Ordinary Session

Members of the National Assembly and Senators have been appreciating the bills government tabled and other salient issues to better the living conditions of the population handled during the just ended March ordinary session of parliament for the 2022 legislative year that lasted from March 11 to April 9, 2022.
Senate President Marcel Niat Njifenji presided at the closing plenary sitting of the Upper House of Parliament on Saturday, April 9, 2022 while the Speaker of the National Assembly, Rt. Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril presided at that of the Lower House of Parliament all in the presence of the Prime Minister, Head of Government, Joseph Dion Ngute who led cabinet ministers.  The session started with the election of the permanent bureaus of the Senate and National Assembly for the 2022 legislative year. The different General Committees were also constituted and their bureaus elected. This was the precondition for parliamentary work to effectively start.
What will for ever remain after the parliamentary session is the eight government bills both Houses of Parliament scrutinised and adopted during the session. The bill relating to medical research involving human subjects in Cameroon is one of the highly appreciated by the parliamentarians. There was also the bill to ratify Ordinance No. 2021/4 of 29 December 2021 to amend and supplement some provisions of Law No. 2020/18 of 17 December 2020: Finance Law of the Republic of Cameroon for the 2021 financial year.   Equally, there were the bills Governing Banking Secrecy in Cameroon and the bill relating to the Protection of the National Road Asset. Five other bills concerned ratifications. They therefore included the bill authorising the President of the Republic to proceed with Cameroon’s accession to the Agreement for the establishment of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Agency, adopted in Pretoria, South Africa, on 23 November 2012;  bill to authorise the President of the Republic to proceed with Cameroon’s accession to the Agreement for the est...