From: nkonga@thetis.inria.fr (Cartouche)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: CAMEROON: Mandat Prsidentiel et Partis Politiques
Date: 11 Jan 93 09:32:13 GMT
Organization: INRIA Sophia Antipolis

|> 
|> 1. THE EXECUTIVE: 
|>      The President and Vice--President should be elected
|>    on the same ticket according to the above terms  and the ticket
|>    must get 50+% of the popular vote to be elected. 
    
    That mean an election in 2 part. In the second part we have the 2
    best candidate of the previous pat.

|>      Bilingualism should be one of the required qualifications of all 
|>    Presidential and Vice-Presidential Candidates until Cameroon
|>    reverts to a single African Language.

    Is an  African Language so important for evolution? We have to
    preserv cameroon culture and language but for political live
    colonial Languages can bring more satisfaction. There are other
    way to valorisate cameroon culture.
        
|>      The Executive Structure should be independent of political party
|>    structures. 
|> Some of our problems of today are because we cannot
|>    seperate the state Executive from the CPDM ruling party.

     The principal reason that make me go away from this parti 4 years
     later. 
|> 
|> 2. THE LEGISLATURE:
|>      It should be bicameral. A SENATE with 20 members (2 per province)
|>    to insure equitable powers for all provinces, and a House of
|>    Parliament of 200 members (1 Parliamentarian per ~60,000 people).
|>      This should be styled after the US, British and French Systems. 
|>      Elections to the House should be by constituencies of ~60,000
|>    inhabitants.  Each constituency should elect its representative. The
|>    constituencies should not be limited to the current administrative
|>    boundaries within a province. The list system must be abolished.
|>      Senatorial elections should be province wide with no regional
|>    limitations for candidacy.
|>      The Senators and Parliamentarians should also be elected for a
|>    5-year term.

 SENATE and
      Parliament are popular representation. It's normal that is
      constitution depend relatively of the population of  provinces.
      I'm not a partisan of a regularisation base on the
      decomposition  of provinces.
|> 
|> 3. THE JUDICIARY:
|>      The current System should be revamped and made indepedent of the
|>    Executive. The Supreme Court should be made up of renowned Justices
|>    appointed  for a single 10-year term and confirmed by the
|>    Legislature. All members of the Judiciary system should also be
|>    independent of the manipulations of political parties.

     Also for corruption and so one. You can't institutionalize this
     last part. But you can give the possibility to juge to be
     independant. 
|> 
|> 4. DECENTRALIZATION:
|>      If the majority does not opt for a federal structure, I will
|>    propose the following decentralization of the existing structure.
|>    If the majority opts for Federalism I have a different  structure
|>    in mind .
|>      Provincial Governors should be elected not appointed. Divisional
|>    Officers, sud-Divisional Officers and District officers should also
|>    be elected not appointed. (Appointing a Bassa for example as "Prefet
|>    du Noun" doesn't sit well with me. It gives the impression to the
|>    local Noun villager for example that a foreigner is ruling them.
|>    Many may argue with this, but I am sorry it is just the basic truth.
|>    Refusing to acknowledge it leads us no where. Can you imagine
|>    appointing an Ewondo mayor of Douala? You will be lynched.)

      That is tribalism.  My law is the best man on a post. I no that
      its not possible in the present cameroon context.
      ( I'm 1/5 Noun, 1/5 Mifi, 1/5 Menoua, 1/5 Moungo, 1/5 bafia ) 
      Where do you thing it's advisable to me to be an administrator?

|>  It
|>    should however be required of all these elected officials to be
|>    trained Administrators. 
|>      All non-National Services like Police, Regional Planning, Local
|>    Taxation, Primary Education, etc. etc., should be reverted to the
|>    provinces.
|>      Each province should have an Elected Provincial Congress (a mini
|>    provincial Parliament) and all essential provincial  services
|>    should be headed by Provincial Delegates.
|> 

      Decentralisation is the main point defend by Pr. Kamto,
      one of the best (free) lawyer  in Cameroon. I thin as him that
      the head of all provinces would have more power.

|> 5. CIVIL SERVICE:
|>      A civil service (a modification of the current Civil Service)
|>    should be established at State and Provincial Levels. This should
|>    be institutions that  are independent of all political parties, so that
|>    any Cameroonian can be a career civil servant without singing the
|>    praise of the powers that be as is the case today. As they say
|>    Presidents come and go but the state remains. A strong and well
|>    structured civil service with defined ministries, secretariats of
|>    state and provinvcial delegations will insure that this is the case.
|> 
      Conlusions justified some points of your mail. 
|> 
|> 
|> SHEMLON WO WAN WAN VIBAN
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