The text on the EPA takes members off guard

This Bill accompanied by a request for urgent for its study procedure was filed Tuesday afternoon at the National Assembly by the Government, 48 hours of the close of the regular session in June.

"I received from the president of the Republic a Bill registered on the issue... authorizing the president of the Republic to ratify the agreements of economic partnership with the EU and Cemac.

The president of the Republic also requested an emergency procedure for the consideration of this Bill.

Thus, the members of the commission of Foreign Affairs shall meet from 10 p.m. Tuesday. The sitting is suspended.

It is in these terms that Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, president of the National Assembly, has closed the plenary Tuesday, July 8, 2014, devoted to the adoption of the three law proposals tabled by deputies of the Democratic Rally of the Cameroon people Democratic Movement.

From this announcement, this was a total surprise which reads on the faces of the elected representatives of the people.

Joseph Mbah Ndam, elected from Momo on behalf of the Social democratic front (SDF) created a scandal, questioning the reasons for which this Bill was not beforehand, as in the usual, distributed to the members.

And indeed, no elected representative of the people is still in possession of this text. Not even members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Yet, they are invited to begin its review in just a few hours.

At the direction of the legislation where the Bills of the Government are generally returned after acceptance by the conference of presidents, difficult to have the slightest trace of this precious sesame this Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at the end of this plenary session.

Yet it is here that the texts are often multiplied for dispatching. "Our copier is down. Even the members do not have the text. You cannot have it now', says the boss. But this concealment does not surprise the informed observers. "It's unfortunate for our country.

Also suicidal text for Cameroon is introduced for study 48 hours to the end of the session simply so that members who are responsible to examine will adopt it without having had the time to understand.

They tell us that the president has requested an emergency procedure and that people must work from 10 pm.

It is a way of wanting to change this text to the forceps", denounces a member of the majority who requires anonymity for obvious reasons. Sadness can be read on the faces of the members of this Committee.

At 22 o'clock? We will do it how? »queries Pierre Sende, a member of Union of the peoples of Cameroon out of the House on Tuesday.

The regular session of June to be completed this afternoon, and taking into account the principle of the parliamentary Shuttle, it is obvious that members have put double efforts to complete the study of this Bill last night.

So it was forwarded to the Senate this morning of July 10, 2014.

And there, the elected representatives of the upper House will have the time to receive and return for final adoption this afternoon at the closing of the work of the National Assembly plenary session.