The people’s representatives acquired skills in Yaounde on ways of reinforcing the legislative system in the integrated strategy in fighting against corruption.

Cameroon’s members of parliament and senior officials of the National Assembly are expected to fully participate in putting place of the National Strategy for the Fight Against Corruption in the country whenever it will adopted. They were mobilised and effectively participated in identifying the means and mechanisms the legislative system can contribute in ensuring the fight against corruption within itself and the synergy with all society stakeholders in eradicating the corruption scourge.

The parliamentarians and senior officials of the National Assembly, yesterday, September 16 ended a two-day workshop in Yaounde organised by the National Anti-corruption Commission (NACC) to reinforce the legislative pillar of integrity in the ongoing process to draw up a National Strategy to fight against Corruption. The Vice Chairman of NACC, Dieudonné Massi Gams said in his keynote opening speech last Wednesday said the institution which is the leading independent agency in the fight against corruption in Cameroon, has the task of coordinating the process to elaborate and implement the National Strategy to Fight against Corruption. The workshop to reinforce the legislative system was the 15th in a series of workshops organised by NACC to ensure the complete mobilisation of all stakeholders; effective participation of all segments of the Cameroonian society in the elaboration process the national strategy and the individual and collective commitment of all Cameroonians in putting in place of the strategy.

The recommendations of the workshop were intended to enable government be informed on the level and extent of corruption in the legislative system, identify the bulk of work on corruption that has to be done concerning the legislative system, identify and elaborate the mechanism of implementation of actions to improve the integrity of members of the legislative system. The workshop equally permit the government to identify the means and mechanisms of collaboration between members of the legislative system pillar of integrity and between the members and those of other pillars, put in place a network of positive actors in the legislative system , identify and design actions to strengthen the independence of the legislative system.