Kini Nsom
13 March 2008
MPs, who are not members of the Bureau of the National Assembly, will now have FCFA one million every session.
The Bureau of the National Assembly took the decision when the MPs protested against the fact that members of the Bureau of the National Assembly took a decision awarding themselves fabulous allowances.
Before the decision, the Bureau members had cried out that they were earning allowances that were inferior to those of people who had the same ranks with them in the public service.
That is why the Speaker of the National Assembly was awarded a car allowance of FCFA 60 million.The First Vice President of the National Assembly, who has a rank equivalent to that of a Minister of State in the public service, was awarded a car allowance of FCFA 55 million.
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Other Vice Presidents, who are ranked as Ministers, were awarded FCFA 45 million each. Questors and Secretaries, who are ranked as Secretaries of State, have car allowances of FCFA 40 million and FCFA 35 million for their mandates.
While Bureau members went home with fat packages, ordinary MPs were left with nothing. They are given a car loan of FCFA 8 million that has to be refunded within the five-year mandate. Also, FCFA 166,000 is cut from their salaries every month.
It was on this basis that the ordinary MPs protested during the last Parliamentary session and were unanimous on disrupting the session.The matter was so hot that the CPDM Parliamentary Group held a meeting in an attempt to restrain their MPs. It was reported that CPDM authorities tried to bully the MPs into submission, but faced stiff resistance.
According to the SDF parliamentary Group Leader, Hon. Joseph Banazem, the FCFA 1 million allowance is very necessary to cover the expenses that MPs incur when they attend sessions in Yaounde.
The lawmakers are expected to begin the second ordinary session of the National Assembly on March 13.It is speculated that government is scheming to table the constitutional amendment bill.
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