Difficulties faced in monitoring the PIB in Lékié

The departmental committee has criticized the lack of cooperation of municipalities.

More than a call, it is a true interpellation that parliamentarians and members of the departmental committee, monitoring the implementation of the public investment budget (PIB), were directed to municipalities.

They reiterated to Monatélé, during the second session of the Monitoring Committee, on July 10.

The fact is, halfway through the 2015 budget year, the monitoring committee, chaired by Cécile Epondo Fouda (deputy to the National Assembly) was struggling to take stock of the implementation of projects covered by the financial support of public authorities.

This "lack of transparency" is not likely to facilitate socio-economic development of communities across Lékié. The department has received a budget of just over FCFA 6 billion, the second largest in the Central Region.

The lack of evaluation does not allow consideration "efficient" obstacles and limitations encountered during the project implementation. Yet, Barnabé Eloundou, deputy to the National Assembly, supports that this assessment is "necessary" since "we must move forward," significantly. Given this situation, Senator Louis-Marie Mama agreed with the support of other parliamentarians to initiate approaches with local officials to sensitize them on the importance of closer cooperation with the PIB Departmental Monitoring Committee.

Especially because besides the communication difficulties, there were many limits on the control by the presidents of the municipal executive, budgetary and accounting procedures. All of which, according to members of the monitoring committee, failed to expose them for prosecution and this constitute "an obstacle to socio-economic development and thus the well-being of local people".