This is what I could take home from Mr. Colbert's detailed explanation of the salaries of our MP,s. The figures below are in Millions of Francs CFA. I am not good in "Arithmetic" but all the mathematicians in the house can help me out with modern scientific calculations. Did someone tell me that our country Cameroon is a poor country? Think again. The additions are fuzzy but they simply blow your mind and I had to stop and look around me whether this was for real. Do you now understand why NOT a single CPDM, SDF or all the other so-called "Opposant" Parliamentarians can say "Phwem" in those chambers?...BICOS "Erreur 4 Mbout (we the people) Na Damez 4 Deputes.
God Scratch Matches. Arata Die, Na yi Mop Killam.
TITLE BASE: M/Project: Allowance: Car Note: Miscellaneous: TOTAL/5Yrs.
President 1.8 8.0 8.0 60.0 10.0 298.000.000
Group Pres. 1.2 8.0 5.0 50.0 8.0 257.000.000
1st V/Pres. 1.2 8.0 5.0 45.0 6.0 255.000.000
2,3,4 & 5V/P 1.2 8.0 5.0 45.0 6.0 1.020.000.000
Sec. Gen N.A 1.5 - - 50.0 3.0 155.000.000
Quester 1.2 8.0 5.0 40.0 6.0 253.000.000
SecretaryX6 1.0 8.0 3.0 35.0 1.0
DeputesX170 0.9 8.0 5.0 35.0 2.0 10.355.000.000
Com. Chairs - 45.0 4.0
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 3:59 PM, Francis Njung <njungf@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 6:50 PM, Colbert Gwain <colbertgwain@yahoo.fr> wrote:
See What the 180 MPs You Just Elected Would Claim as Monthly Expenses and Allowances for the Next 05 Years
-Their Salaries and Pension
-Travelling and Daily Allowances
-Housing, Electricity and Telephone Bills
-Medical Bills
-Car Allowance
-Constituency Allowance
-Constituency Office Expenses
-Second Home Expenses
The Supreme Court
in its very last outing in lieu of the Constitutional Council last Thursday October 17, 2013 declared as definitively elected Members of Parliament some 180 Cameroonian men and women from among seven of the over 250 political parties in Cameroon. Although some 37 political parties presented candidates for the September 30, 2013 twin elections, the ruling Cpdm went home with a total of 141 MPs, while its main challenger, the opposition SDF totaled 18 seats up from 16 in the last legislature. The NUDP party managed a paltry five while CDU and others shared the rest. With the official results now known the next issue the taxpayer needs to know is how their stay in the Glasshouse for the next five years would
Impact on Taxes.
There is no gainsaying the fact that Cameroon's Members of Parliament are one of the highest paid in Africa after Kenya. With a less than five points growth rate, a stagnating GDP and a Minimum pay wage of 29500FCFA, an ordinary Cameroonian law making earns 30 times a Cameroonian minimum wage earner. By the Labour Code, the lowest wage earner in Cameroon must not bag home less than 29500FCFA a month. Huge MPs salaries raise challenging questions for a job whose only professional qualification is the vote of the masses. How ordinary wage earners are supposed to feed themselves on a fraction of what MP get as a salary - let alone their allowances - is beyond the limits of commonsense. Yet, the ordinary Cameroonian taxpayer would have to support the monthly expenses and allowances of the 180 MPs ranging from salaries and pension, traveling and daily allowances through medical bills, car allowances to constituency and second home allowances. All this are
contained in
The Allowances and Pension Act of MPs.
The current basic annual salary for an MP in Cameroon is FCFA 900 000. In addition, MPs are able to claim allowances to cover the costs of running an office and employing staff, and maintaining a constituency residence and second home expenses in Yaoundé. Additional salary is paid for appointments or additional duties - such as the chairing of select committees. Due to additional allowances, it is difficult to calculate the annual basic salary of an MP, but for an MP with no additional responsibilities, who stays for a single term of 5 years, the MP's severance package will raise the taxable salary by over FCFA10 000 000 per year. To effectively understand what an average MP earns in Cameroon, one needs to understand how they are classified by
The House Standing Orders.
The Standing Orders clearly defines who takes home what at the National Assembly. These include a bureau member, a committee member and an ordinary member. 'Member' means a member of each house of parliament, that is, senate and lower house. Bureau members would include those elected to various offices at the National Assembly like National Assembly President, Vice Presidents, Questors, Parliamentary Group President, Secretaries and Committee Chairs. Beyond receiving monthly salaries, a member is entitled to other allowances as outlined in the Standing Orders. According to the Standing Orders, 'there shall be paid to each member in respect of the journey he/she performed for the purpose of attending a session of parliament or a meeting of a joint committee or for the purpose of attending any other business connected to his committee or the business was taking place as well as return journey from such place to his/her place of residence'. If the
journey is performed by rail an amount equal to one First Class fare. If the journey is performed by air, an amount equal to the first class or economy class is given. If the journey is performed by road, an amount calculated on the basis of kms is given. In certain circumstances such allowances are extended to spouses of MPs. Other kinds of allowances are also available at intervals of parliamentary sessions and committees. Beyond travelling allowance, MPs are entitled to
Constituency Allowances.
MPs are entitled to constituency allowances such as Office expenses, staff salary, medical bills, telephone, electricity and water bills for himself and members of his family. A major constituency allowance that practically all Cameroonians are aware of is the parliamentary grant of 8 million FCFCA per year. This gives an average MP 40 million FCFA in five years as micro-projects. Beyond theses regular allowances, an MP is entitled to pension depending on longevity in parliament, age and the pension plan he/she opted for. Pension plans are 1/40th, 1/50th or 1/60th of your annual salary. On the death of any MP during his/her tenure, his/her spouse or any dependent shall be entitled to payment during the remaining tenure of the house. The payment shall be the equivalent of the pension had the MP retired. The MPs life is made more convenient by the provision of
Car Allowance.
Before the 2008 readjustments to the Standing Orders at the National Assembly, MPs could be awarded refundable car or Conveyance loans depending on the positions the hold parliament. After the 2008 financial mismanagement scandal when some MPs discovered that while ordinary MPs refunded the car loans House Speaker and the rest of the 23 Bureau members never refund theirs, car allowances now no longer seem to be refundable. The Standing Orders provided that conveyance allowances be slashed off directly from MPs monthly allowances. The Speaker of the National Assembly receives FCFA60 million each legislature for Car allowance. The Vice Presidents are entitled to FCFA50 and 45 million respectively, for non-refundable car loan. Questors receive some 40 million while group leaders and secretaries receive FCFA 35 million car loans. From the third year of the legislature MPs who earlier obtained car loans begin receiving car maintenance allowances. Added to
travel abroad and interministerial committee meetings, the 180 MPs give the Cameroon taxpayer
A Run for His Money.
If an ordinary MP takes home FCFA900 000 tax-deductable monthly salary, it means in concrete terms that in five years he/she goes home with FCFA10 000 000. When you add FCFA40 million micro grant loan and average of FCFA40 million car loan plus other allowances, you are talking of FCFA100 000 000 in five years. This means that the 180 newly elected MPs would cost the Cameroon taxpayer over FCFA180 000 000 for the next five years. Compared with the productivity of these 180 MPs at the Glasshouse where they only clap hands and applaud every government bill, more questions are asked than answers supplied. In all fairness to the Honorable MPs, although the power of MPs themselves to decide their pay and conditions has been a source of grievance in some areas, it should be borne in mind that many MPs have frequently voted against large pay rises, and on occasion the discipline of the opposition in Parliament has seen pay rises rejected. Although the idea for
a huge salary for MPs was to make politics a "career", this is still strenuously rejected by many low income earners. Most MPs argue that this makes for both the democratization and "professionalization" of politics. With Parliamentary work being paid, it is no longer necessary to be an individual of independent means to seek elected office. Many out gone MPs have argued that on paper their allowances look big, but that strictly speaking MPs do not receive such allowances as they go to MPs' staff, landlords, electricity suppliers, insurance companies and philanthropy in the various constituencies. Yet, when one compares with France, India, Uganda and Ghana with higher growth rates Cameroon pays its MPs
Real Fabulous Sums.
N/B: The facts in this article may not be accurate because of the difficulty in obtaining official data, talk less of parliamentary information. Without a FOI Act, we cannot do better than this. Please Help: If you have further information or directives on where we can have more detailed and accurate information, feel free to let us know. We await your contributions plus graphs and stats
Thanks
The Colbert Factor
Data-Driven Journalism Association of Cameroon
Bamenda-Cameroon
--------------------------------------------
On Sat, 10/19/13, Sylvanus <slyvachia@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [AFOaKOM] Julius Peteers Tohmuntain
To: "AFOaKOM@yahoogroups.com" <AFOaKOM@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 12:40 AM
Bobe Paul,Good morning and thanks
for your email of yesterday about the flying allegations
surrounding the Mayoral elections/seat in Njinikom
. In fact,after reading your mail,I cannot
resist this temptation to think that you know more that you
have said and that you might have been delegated by Mr
Julius Peteers to write that mail.Those words are quite
strong and a serious charge-he who brings home the nyamgvin
should be given a red feather ,Julius Peteers did just
that,left out in the cold,forced out,shrouded in a quid pro
quo deal etc.My brother,it would be better if you don't
speak in parables and add more flesh to that posting
so that people can really know what you are talking about
please. Also,leading up to the elections
and after elections,Mr JP had written in the forum and he is
the one who even gave a very nice detailed results sheet for
Njinikom or so and some people were asking others to do like
him. Now,my humble opinion is this-waina
wom-Bobe JP,I know you as a gentleman of honour and respect
who has worked for Njinikom so well and will continue to do
so,nobody stands a better chance than you to tell the house
if these charges are true or not because bobe Paul wrote
about you.I think the council is in a "cry for
salvation state"to borrow from Prince Tubuo and if you
could creat time and clear the air,that would be great as
that would really help in kick starting development in
Njinikom.Some people may not say this,but,I am certain
everyone would be pleased to hear from you.My
opinion.Fiyifi Boisii.Chia
Sent from my iPhone
On 18 Oct 2013, at 19:08, Paul <paulwallang@yahoo.com>
wrote:
This
is the time for the SDF party barons in Njinikom to put out
the flames of intraparty discord. Stories are running
wild about the exchange of favors for the Mayoral
seat. It is just commonsense that he who
brings home the Nyamgvin be given a red feather. Julius
Peteers did just that but was left out in the cold. Forced
out of the process. We need some clarification. We want to
hear that these allegations are not true. We want to know
that the selection of the new mayor was not shrouded in
a quid pro quo deal. We want to know....We want to
know......Please allay our fears.
-Their Salaries and Pension
-Travelling and Daily Allowances
-Housing, Electricity and Telephone Bills
-Medical Bills
-Car Allowance
-Constituency Allowance
-Constituency Office Expenses
-Second Home Expenses
The Supreme Court
in its very last outing in lieu of the Constitutional Council last Thursday October 17, 2013 declared as definitively elected Members of Parliament some 180 Cameroonian men and women from among seven of the over 250 political parties in Cameroon. Although some 37 political parties presented candidates for the September 30, 2013 twin elections, the ruling Cpdm went home with a total of 141 MPs, while its main challenger, the opposition SDF totaled 18 seats up from 16 in the last legislature. The NUDP party managed a paltry five while CDU and others shared the rest. With the official results now known the next issue the taxpayer needs to know is how their stay in the Glasshouse for the next five years would
Impact on Taxes.
There is no gainsaying the fact that Cameroon's Members of Parliament are one of the highest paid in Africa after Kenya. With a less than five points growth rate, a stagnating GDP and a Minimum pay wage of 29500FCFA, an ordinary Cameroonian law making earns 30 times a Cameroonian minimum wage earner. By the Labour Code, the lowest wage earner in Cameroon must not bag home less than 29500FCFA a month. Huge MPs salaries raise challenging questions for a job whose only professional qualification is the vote of the masses. How ordinary wage earners are supposed to feed themselves on a fraction of what MP get as a salary - let alone their allowances - is beyond the limits of commonsense. Yet, the ordinary Cameroonian taxpayer would have to support the monthly expenses and allowances of the 180 MPs ranging from salaries and pension, traveling and daily allowances through medical bills, car allowances to constituency and second home allowances. All this are
contained in
The Allowances and Pension Act of MPs.
The current basic annual salary for an MP in Cameroon is FCFA 900 000. In addition, MPs are able to claim allowances to cover the costs of running an office and employing staff, and maintaining a constituency residence and second home expenses in Yaoundé. Additional salary is paid for appointments or additional duties - such as the chairing of select committees. Due to additional allowances, it is difficult to calculate the annual basic salary of an MP, but for an MP with no additional responsibilities, who stays for a single term of 5 years, the MP's severance package will raise the taxable salary by over FCFA10 000 000 per year. To effectively understand what an average MP earns in Cameroon, one needs to understand how they are classified by
The House Standing Orders.
The Standing Orders clearly defines who takes home what at the National Assembly. These include a bureau member, a committee member and an ordinary member. 'Member' means a member of each house of parliament, that is, senate and lower house. Bureau members would include those elected to various offices at the National Assembly like National Assembly President, Vice Presidents, Questors, Parliamentary Group President, Secretaries and Committee Chairs. Beyond receiving monthly salaries, a member is entitled to other allowances as outlined in the Standing Orders. According to the Standing Orders, 'there shall be paid to each member in respect of the journey he/she performed for the purpose of attending a session of parliament or a meeting of a joint committee or for the purpose of attending any other business connected to his committee or the business was taking place as well as return journey from such place to his/her place of residence'. If the
journey is performed by rail an amount equal to one First Class fare. If the journey is performed by air, an amount equal to the first class or economy class is given. If the journey is performed by road, an amount calculated on the basis of kms is given. In certain circumstances such allowances are extended to spouses of MPs. Other kinds of allowances are also available at intervals of parliamentary sessions and committees. Beyond travelling allowance, MPs are entitled to
Constituency Allowances.
MPs are entitled to constituency allowances such as Office expenses, staff salary, medical bills, telephone, electricity and water bills for himself and members of his family. A major constituency allowance that practically all Cameroonians are aware of is the parliamentary grant of 8 million FCFCA per year. This gives an average MP 40 million FCFA in five years as micro-projects. Beyond theses regular allowances, an MP is entitled to pension depending on longevity in parliament, age and the pension plan he/she opted for. Pension plans are 1/40th, 1/50th or 1/60th of your annual salary. On the death of any MP during his/her tenure, his/her spouse or any dependent shall be entitled to payment during the remaining tenure of the house. The payment shall be the equivalent of the pension had the MP retired. The MPs life is made more convenient by the provision of
Car Allowance.
Before the 2008 readjustments to the Standing Orders at the National Assembly, MPs could be awarded refundable car or Conveyance loans depending on the positions the hold parliament. After the 2008 financial mismanagement scandal when some MPs discovered that while ordinary MPs refunded the car loans House Speaker and the rest of the 23 Bureau members never refund theirs, car allowances now no longer seem to be refundable. The Standing Orders provided that conveyance allowances be slashed off directly from MPs monthly allowances. The Speaker of the National Assembly receives FCFA60 million each legislature for Car allowance. The Vice Presidents are entitled to FCFA50 and 45 million respectively, for non-refundable car loan. Questors receive some 40 million while group leaders and secretaries receive FCFA 35 million car loans. From the third year of the legislature MPs who earlier obtained car loans begin receiving car maintenance allowances. Added to
travel abroad and interministerial committee meetings, the 180 MPs give the Cameroon taxpayer
A Run for His Money.
If an ordinary MP takes home FCFA900 000 tax-deductable monthly salary, it means in concrete terms that in five years he/she goes home with FCFA10 000 000. When you add FCFA40 million micro grant loan and average of FCFA40 million car loan plus other allowances, you are talking of FCFA100 000 000 in five years. This means that the 180 newly elected MPs would cost the Cameroon taxpayer over FCFA180 000 000 for the next five years. Compared with the productivity of these 180 MPs at the Glasshouse where they only clap hands and applaud every government bill, more questions are asked than answers supplied. In all fairness to the Honorable MPs, although the power of MPs themselves to decide their pay and conditions has been a source of grievance in some areas, it should be borne in mind that many MPs have frequently voted against large pay rises, and on occasion the discipline of the opposition in Parliament has seen pay rises rejected. Although the idea for
a huge salary for MPs was to make politics a "career", this is still strenuously rejected by many low income earners. Most MPs argue that this makes for both the democratization and "professionalization" of politics. With Parliamentary work being paid, it is no longer necessary to be an individual of independent means to seek elected office. Many out gone MPs have argued that on paper their allowances look big, but that strictly speaking MPs do not receive such allowances as they go to MPs' staff, landlords, electricity suppliers, insurance companies and philanthropy in the various constituencies. Yet, when one compares with France, India, Uganda and Ghana with higher growth rates Cameroon pays its MPs
Real Fabulous Sums.
N/B: The facts in this article may not be accurate because of the difficulty in obtaining official data, talk less of parliamentary information. Without a FOI Act, we cannot do better than this. Please Help: If you have further information or directives on where we can have more detailed and accurate information, feel free to let us know. We await your contributions plus graphs and stats
Thanks
The Colbert Factor
Data-Driven Journalism Association of Cameroon
Bamenda-Cameroon
--------------------------------------------
On Sat, 10/19/13, Sylvanus <slyvachia@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [AFOaKOM] Julius Peteers Tohmuntain
To: "AFOaKOM@yahoogroups.com" <AFOaKOM@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 12:40 AM
Bobe Paul,Good morning and thanks
for your email of yesterday about the flying allegations
surrounding the Mayoral elections/seat in Njinikom
. In fact,after reading your mail,I cannot
resist this temptation to think that you know more that you
have said and that you might have been delegated by Mr
Julius Peteers to write that mail.Those words are quite
strong and a serious charge-he who brings home the nyamgvin
should be given a red feather ,Julius Peteers did just
that,left out in the cold,forced out,shrouded in a quid pro
quo deal etc.My brother,it would be better if you don't
speak in parables and add more flesh to that posting
so that people can really know what you are talking about
please. Also,leading up to the elections
and after elections,Mr JP had written in the forum and he is
the one who even gave a very nice detailed results sheet for
Njinikom or so and some people were asking others to do like
him. Now,my humble opinion is this-waina
wom-Bobe JP,I know you as a gentleman of honour and respect
who has worked for Njinikom so well and will continue to do
so,nobody stands a better chance than you to tell the house
if these charges are true or not because bobe Paul wrote
about you.I think the council is in a "cry for
salvation state"to borrow from Prince Tubuo and if you
could creat time and clear the air,that would be great as
that would really help in kick starting development in
Njinikom.Some people may not say this,but,I am certain
everyone would be pleased to hear from you.My
opinion.Fiyifi Boisii.Chia
Sent from my iPhone
On 18 Oct 2013, at 19:08, Paul <paulwallang@yahoo.com>
wrote:
This
is the time for the SDF party barons in Njinikom to put out
the flames of intraparty discord. Stories are running
wild about the exchange of favors for the Mayoral
seat. It is just commonsense that he who
brings home the Nyamgvin be given a red feather. Julius
Peteers did just that but was left out in the cold. Forced
out of the process. We need some clarification. We want to
hear that these allegations are not true. We want to know
that the selection of the new mayor was not shrouded in
a quid pro quo deal. We want to know....We want to
know......Please allay our fears.
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