National Assembly prepared for November Session

Preparations for the 3rd ordinary session of the National Assembly for the 2015 Legislative year have begun in earnest. All is getting set for a hitch-free session that opens on Thursday November 12, 2015. It is mainly the budgetary session consecrated to the voting of the 2016 State budget.

In a bid to ensure a smooth take off of the upcoming session, the Secretary General of the National Assembly, Victor Yene Ossomba, yesterday November 9, 2015 undertook an inspection tour to structures of the General Secretariat.

Mr. Yene Ossomba accompanied by close collaborators, inspected the House Chamber, Committee rooms, documentation equipment pools, restaurant, the health unit, the library, rest rooms and the security post amongst others.

At the House Chamber just as Committee rooms, the senior National Assembly official checked the functioning of the sound systems, the lighting, air conditions and chairs.

He gave instructions that the lighting system of the House chamber (hemicycle) should be reinforced and some six damaged chairs replaced. He also urged the Protocol Service to give the precise appellations for different ministries and services when labelling the chairs for the members of government. The poles carrying the national colours at the main entrance of the Ngoe-Ekelle Glass House are due refurbishment.

Yesterday’s inspection also took the Secretary General to the Health and the Archives and Document Units where a modern library is under renovation. Here, a staff of the department said the modern library is intended to offer Members of the National Assembly an avenue where they can tap more knowledge for quality inputs during deliberations. At the end of the supervision tour, the Secretary General told reporters that preparations are evaluated at 95 per cent.