Tackling COVID-19 Effects : National Assembly Proposes Recovery Measures

The Speaker of the National Assembly, Rt. Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril gave the measures as he chaired the opening plenary sitting of the November 2020 ordinary session of the House.

The Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril  has commended  government for the satisfactory results obtained in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, stating that although the pandemic has been brought under control, the population should continuously comply to restrictive measures.
He used the opening plenary sitting of the National Assembly for the November ordinary session yesterday,  November 12, 2020 to propose a series of recovery measures to tackle the economic and social effects of the pandemic. He said the post COVID-19 economic recovery will require the formulation of innovative economic policies. The House Speaker suggested that it would be necessary to lend increased support to sectors like tourism, small and medium-sized enterprises,  social economy  and handicraft, properly implement  the seven-point roadmap adopted during the 11th session of the Cameroon Business Forum. Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril urged government to get the SME Bank out of the doldrums for good.
The November session of  parliament would be devoted more importantly for the consideration and adoption of the State budget for the 2021 financial year. In this connection, the House Speaker said,  the finance bill to be tabled before the National Assembly  for consideration should be realistic and tailored to the demands of the country’s actions and resilence, take Cameroon’s concerns and international commitments into  account. In specific terms, he said the actions that await government in 2021 include the completion of the decentralisation  process, measures to facilitate the organisation of regional electios in Cameroon, implementation of the resolutions adopted during the Major National Dialogue, Presidential Plan for the Reconstruction  and Development of the South West and North West Regions, stimulate measures to uphold  the special status  granted the North West and South West Regions and support the package to disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) Centres.
Security and political  issues also preoccupied the Speaker of the National Assembly. He castigated compatriots, the organiser of the uprising , dubbed «Peaceful March » which he said was aimed at destabilising republican institution...

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