The newly appointed members of the constitutional council will take their ought of office on the 6th of march, 2018 at the...
The newly appointed members of the constitutional council will take their ought of office on the 6th of march, 2018 at the congress hall.
The national assembly and the senate will jointly meet to cheer the ceremony; which will be presided over by Cavaye Yeguie Djibril; the speaker of the national assembly.
According to the Cameroon constitution, the newly appointed members will serve for a period of 9yrs non renewable.
These are some of the functions of the constitutional council.
- The constitutional council verifies the constitutionality of laws before they are enacted by the president of Cameroon.
- The constitutional council will also be consulted in case of a referendum.
- The constitutional council can delay the ratification of treaties (agreements) if it deems unconstitutional.
- The constitutional council will also settle issues between various organs of the state and regions.
Summarily, the functions of the constitutional council is centered around protecting the laws of Cameroon.
Nevertheless, the establishment of the constitutional council on the 7th of February, 2018 caused many political analyst to ask the question WHY NOW???.
It should be noted that this constitutional council aught to have been created a very long time ago as stipulated by the June 1972 constitution ( law No 96/06 of the 1996 constitution; which is a revision of the 1972 constitution).
President Biya,s decision to create the constitutional council at this moment; when he is about to leave office, clearly suggest that he is a crook politician and the chief law breaker of Cameroon.
It should be noted that in 2011 president Biya,s term of office was supposed to come to an end as stipulated by the constitution of Cameroon...but president Biya passed a constitutional bill for the 2 term limit to be changed for him to extend his 25yrs rule over Cameroon hence the reason why he has been ruling Cameroon for 35 yrs now (more than 3 decades).
If the constitutional council was already operational before 2011, such a selfish bill would have been revoked by the constitutional council. Since there was no constitutional council then, the bill was quickly adopted by the parliament.
Since the activities of the constitutional council is no longer a stumbling to president biya,s leadership, he has deem it necessary for the legislative organ to be established.
President Biya is a good example of a shithole president.
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