Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Arnaud Nicolas MAWEL
Published on 2024-03-06 09:35:57
During her opening speech of the parliamentary session on March 5th, Laurentine Koa Fegue highlighted the problems that the government struggles to solve in Cameroon.
Members of Parliament and Senators have been meeting in regular session since March 5, 2024. During the opening plenary session at the National Assembly, the oldest member addressed the issue of the assessment of the deputies’ term of office, which is barely 12 months. 48 months after taking office in the lower house, the deputies have not been able to convince government officials to improve the living conditions of the population. Laurentine Koa Fegue demonstrated this by pointing out shortcomings in urban development, water and energy, education, health, and other areas.
Indeed, over the past 48 months, “our cities were dying and are still dying, suffocated by mountains of garbage; the roads in these cities and in rural areas have turned into veritable death traps; corruption has continued to infect the public service. Unforeseen power outages have led to an energy catastrophe. Waterborne diseases have spread due to insufficient clean water. The majority of our health centers continue to suffer from a lack of personnel, medicine, and poor quality technical equipment,” noted the oldest serving member of Parliament.
In the education sector, problems have not been resolved any better. “For example, secondary education resembles a ship adrift. The chalk lords, far from the classrooms, are more focused on making demands, which unfortunately remain unresolved for the most part, despite firm instructions from the higher authorities. Violence and drug use have taken root in school campuses. As for university campuses, work rigor and discipline leave much to be desired. Laxity has definitively taken hold in many cases,” denounced the Parliament member.
According to widow Mbede, some deputies have done everything they could during this soon-to-end term. However, they lacked vigilance and commitment in solving the problems faced by their electorate. She thus raises the issue of the government’s effectiveness, which it is the responsibility of the lower house of Parliament to improve over the next 12 months.
Read the original article(French) on Journal du Cameroun
