By Doh Bertrand Nua
The Member of Parliament, MP, for the Social Democratic Front, SDF in Douala, Littoral Region, Hon. Osih Joshua Nambanji ha criticised the President of the National Assembly, for refusing to condemn government’s violation of the law related to the submission of the finance bill to MPs 15 days before the start of the November session.
Hon. Osih Joshua, SDF MP
Osih gave the reaction shortly after the opening of the 3rd and last session for the 2020 legislative year, dedicated to the examination and adoption of the 2021 state budget.
“I would have expected the speaker to start with the fact that the law is not respected. He signed that law and gave it to the president to enact and so he should be the first to defend us and defend the Cameroonian people to make sure that the law is respected,” Osih said, adding that anything thing that was said by the Rt Hon Cavaye was irrelevant going from the disposition of a flouted law.
“It is evident and clear that once again the government has violated the law. The law stipulates that the finance bill is given to MPs before this session and once again we are 15 days late. This is a blatant abuse of the Cameroonian people. You need to understand that you cannot take 5500 billion and work on such a budget over night,” Osih said, adding that the process needs time.
“…all what we are doing right now if we don’t have an extraordinary session after this session to give us the time after this session to work correctly, we will just replicate all the issues that brought about the Anglophone crisis or the civil war we have in Cameroon, the insecurity in the Far North, East, Adamawa and even here in Yaounde,” Osih added.
He further that without an extraordinary session to permit them carefully scrutinise the bill, people will find themselves marginalised because the national cake which is the budget is not distributed equitably.
“…and this makes it such that people think they are second class citizens and this only happens because MPs are not given the ample time to go in-depth into what government presents to them as a budget to make sure that each and every constituency has its fair share of what is being put on table,” Osih revealed, adding that he strongly believes it is done on purpose in order to entertain all the insecurity and all the civil war that is rocking the country.
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