The first permanent bureau of the National Assembly for the ninth legislative period is already in place awaiting the putting in place of the nine General Committees of the House to start work.
In a plenary sitting yesterday, November 5, 2013 at mid day the five Vice Presidents, four Questors and 12 Secretaries were elected. Their election through a consensus list presented by the political parties represented at the National Assembly came after the election of the House Speaker, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril and First Vice President, Hon. Etong Hilarion in an earlier plenary sitting on Monday, November 4.
Political parties represented in the Bureau include the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement, CPDM that has a crushing majority of 148 out of the 180 members of the Lower House of Parliament. CPDM has the positions of House Speaker, First Vice President, fou r Vice Presidents, three Questors and 10 Secretaries. The Social Democratic Front, SDF with 18 seats in the National Assembly maintains Hon. Mbah Ndam Joseph Njang as one of the Vice Presidents and Hon. Awudu Mbaya Cyprian one of the four Questors. Maigari Bello Bouba's National Union for Democracy and Progress, NUDP has Hon. Amadou Mohaman as one of the Secretaries. The Cameroon Democratic Union, CDU of Dr Adamou Ndam Njoya with four seats in the National Assembly has maintained, Hon. Tomaino Ndam Njoya Hermine Patricia as one of the 12 Secretaries. The are minimal changes in the bureau of the House from that of the last year of the eighth legislative period. New comers include Hon. Datouo Théodore one of the five Vice Presidents. There is also Hon. Njingum Musa Mbutoh who comes in as one of the four Questors.
The Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril who presided at the elective plenary sitting while adjourning deliberations, called on all parties represented in the House to forward to him the list of their members to constitute the nine General Committees. Each of the nine Committee has 20 members. The Committees include that on Constitutional Laws, Human Rights and Freedoms, Justice, Legislation and Standing Orders, Administration; Finance and the Budget; Foreign Affairs; National Defence and Security; and Economic Affairs, Planning and Regional Development. The four remaining Committee include: Education, Vocational Training and Youth; Cultural, Social and Family Affairs; Production and Trade; and finally the committee on Resolutions and Petitions.
