The inaugural session of the committee to follow-up the implementation of the resolutions met in Yaounde under it’s chairperson, Prime Minister chief Dr. Joseph Dion Ngute.
At the end of their deliberations Thursday September 03 2020, it was agreed that a road map be created, to facilitate the return to normalcy in the anglophone regions.
“Our children need to resume school, our business men and women have to operate freely, religious activities have to be revived…” the chairman of the committee noted.
According to the official spokesperson of the Major National Dialogue, Dr. George Ewane, the government has done a lot in implementing the resolutions.
Speaking during a press briefing that followed the inaugural session, he cited a few examples;
– The recruitment and absorption into the judiciary of the first batch of English speaking people judges.
– The creation of a common law section at ENAM and at the Supreme Court.
– The special recruitment of 500 translators and translators-interpreter into the civil service.
– The promulgation of the law on official languages and that on the general code of decentralized authorities.
However, more efforts still have to be put in, experts believe.
One of the members of the follow-up committee, archbishop emeritus of Douala, Christian Cardinal Tumi talked to News Upfront;
“The President of the Republic is serious in resolving the crisis in the NW,SW regions but the rate of implementation of the resolutions from the Major National Dialogue is not encouraging especially the reconstruction of the two regions” Christian Cardinal Tumi said.
The reconstruction placed under the coordination of Minister Paul Tasong is however on the move, and their strategy is to begin with less restive zones.
One major revelation from the inaugural session was a plan to establish an industrial zone in the affected regions, that will be able to create more than 9.000 jobs.
