The Senate still homeless after 3 months

The "written off" congress currently occupies the premises of the old building of the Public Procurement Regulations Agency (ARMP) at quartier Dragage in Yaounde.

"The building of the ARMP is not worthy of the upper chamber. I think we are dragged in the mud. So far, no one knows exactly where it will sit in view of the fact that the convention center is still under construction. But the fact remains that we can not sit in the ARMP building given the state of this building," an offended senator of the CPDM said in the newspaper Daily Emergence of Wednesday, November 4, 2015.

"We can not sit here. There is no appropriate room. Do you find it normal for the Senate to be mixed with other structures? It is an organ of sovereignty even when," proclaims a member of the Senate office.

According to some sources, the services of the General Secretariat of the Senate moved away from the lobby on the 8th floor and 9th floor, where the office of the Secretary General (SG) is. It preferred moving to the Hall "because of technical failures affecting the elevator," one reads.

Members of the upper house of parliament are not installed at their comfort. The offices are fitted progressively and the ARMP is not suitable to hold the session of the month. "For the moment, we are negotiating with the convention center for the session to be held there," one learns.

For now, sources close to the Senate say the SG Michel Meva'a Eboutou suffers because he is obliged to take daily shuttles between the old building of ARMP and the Convention Centre as the President of the Senate has not left because of the dilapidated state of the new premises.