180 mail boxes for MPs at the National Assembly

Each member of the National Assembly has a personal mail box where all correspondences addressed to their names are kept.

It is a routine for most Members of the National Assembly to visit the “post office” of the Ngoa-Ekelle Glass House located at the lobby of the main building in search of mails and the national bilingual daily newspaper, Cameroon Tribune.

The mail corner partly covered with glass walls is strictly forbidden to the staff of the National Assembly and visitors.

A notice to that effect is conspicuous on the main door into the mail box corner.

According to the Sub-director of MPs Reserved Affairs and Mails at the National Assembly, Dr. Célestin Dabandata, there are 180 mail boxes corresponding to 180 Members of the House. Each of them owns a key for his/her mail box.

He explained that official or even private mails addressed to the various MPs are deposited into their respective boxes by personnel of his department in charge.

The service in charge keeps the spare keys of the boxes which enables them to furnish the boxes with mails and Cameroon Tribune newspaper every morning.

Dr. Dabandata further revealed that in the event of urgency, the MP is contacted by telephone. In a situation where the mail is voluminous, it is kept at the Parliamentary Secretariat and the MP concerned informed.

However, Members of Parliament who have offices at the National Assembly such as Deputy Speakers, Questors, and President of Parliamentary Groups amongst others are served in their cabinets.

As far as bills are concerned, only Members of Parliament who do not belong to a parliamentary group are served bills at the Parliamentary Secretariat while the rest get the bills at their respective parliamentary group offices.