Economic, Social Council:Committee Scrutinises Reform Bill

 Territorial Administration and Decentralisation Minister, René Emmanuel Sadi defended the bill in the Committee on Constitutional Laws on June 12, 2017

The Minister of Territorial  Administration and Decentralisation, René Emmanuel Sadi  on  Monday, June 12, 2017 at the Committee on Constitutional Laws of the National Assembly defended the bill  to lay down the powers, organisation and functioning  of the Economic and Social Council of Cameroon. The Minister of Public Service and Administrative Reform, Michel Ange Angouin represented the Vice Prime Minister, Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Relations with the Assemblies, Amadou Ali in the committee.
Minister Sadi said the Council has not lived up to expectation, hence, government through the bill sets out to chart a new course and add a new impetus  to the Economic and Social Council, enabling it to play a major role. In terms of innovation, when the bill must have been adopted and promulgated into law, issues of the environment and sustainable development will be under the powers of the Council. This will enable the Council like similar structures in other countries to draw, as and when necessary, the attention of the President of the Republic or Government to reforms that it deems necessary within its sphere of competence. There are high hopes that the Council will become more effective as all its members will be in place to work. The explanatory statement to the bill disclosed that out of the 150 members provided for by the law in force, the Economic and Social Council today has merely six members and extremely limited administrative and technical staff.
The Economic and Social Council, the bill stipulates, is a consultative assembly composed of representatives of various trade categories in the economic, social, cultural and environmental domains. The Council has the mission to advise government in the domains falling within its competence. The bill specifies that it may be involved to evaluate government policies. By law, the Economic and Social Council is compulsorily consulted on bills regarding national economic, social or environmental programmes or plans, with the exception of the  finance bill.

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« The Economic and Social Council is first of all a constitutional institution. We think that the President of the Republic thinks that up to today the organ has not lived up to expectation. It is a co...