National Decentralisation Board: Extraordinary Session Today

The Secretary General at the Prime Minister’s Office, Fouda Séraphin Magloire announced the session in a press release.

Prime Minister, Head of Government,  Philemon Yang will today, May 23, 2017 at 9 :00 a.m. chair an extraordinary  session of the National Decentralisation Board.
The extraordinary session comes after the ordinary board meeting of December 28, 2016 in which the Prime Minister who is chairperson of the National Decentralisation  Board gave special instructions  to some cabinet ministers on ways of accelerating the decentralisation process in the country. Today’s extraordinary board session will certainly  be to evaluate the implementation of the Prime Minister’s instructions  and chart the way forward. It will for instance certainly  be an occasion to evaluate the effective  payment of the remunerations of the municipal magistrates. During the  ordinary board meeting of December 28, 2016, Prime Minister Yang instructed the Minister of Finance to take all  necessary measures  for the payments to effectively start from  the first quarter of 2017. He also instructed the Minister of Finance to expedite procedures jointly with the Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development  and take all measures to facilitate the disbursement  of State budget appropriations  meant for councils  and FEICOM  in strict complaince with the principle of the annual nature of the budget. The Minister of Finance also had to submit to the Prime Minister’s Office by January 30, 2017, the conclusions of the ongoing study to change  from a logic of delegation of votes to councils ...