Senate: Members of the house are without fixed homes

Since the beginning of the current parliamentary session, some senators have began timidly raising their tone to protest against what they call "the decrease of their salary" which is also not "a fixed salary," since their entry into the upper house of the Cameroonian Parliament.

But officials had good reason to be indignant, two years after because very few Cameroonians know that the president of the Senate, the Honourable Marcel Niat Njifenji, continues to live in a modest apartment in Nlongkak in the political capital of Cameroon same as from the time he was still a "simple citizen".

Two years after he became the second personality of the country, he continues to share the same building and the narrow parking space with his tenants.

One often imagines scenes from households and all noise that accompany such collective housing. The other members of the Senate who are entitled to mansions can hope for nothing since the leader has not been served.

When they were elected and installed in April 2013, they observe with bitterness that the Government of the Republic had not even planned vehicles for them. They had to rent vehicles from a travel agency owned by a Minister of the Republic, for several months. But until then, all is not well as the Vice-Chairmen and others must continue to wait. This isn't the first disappointment. They also occupy a part of the building of the National Assembly, before they were evicted.

The second personality of the State and his employees are forced to fend for themselves in the neighborhood, as they can. While the third and fourth figures of the same State each have a special hotel, secured and worthy of their rank in the State Protocol.

The establishment of the upper House of the Cameroonian Parliament had been considered several years before the establishment of the institution.

For two years that the institution was finally set up, how do we understand the inability of Cameroon to give these honourable members benefits to which they are entitled? The question is very open.