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Cameroon’s National Assembly has launched a physical count of its employees to establish its actual workforce and create a more reliable basis for managing staffing and payroll costs.
In a Sept 9 statement, National Assembly Secretary-General André-Noël Essian announced a physical census and verification of the institution’s personnel records. The exercise will run from Sept. 10 through Sept. 23.
According to Essian, the operation aims to provide “a better understanding of staffing levels, update administrative information relating to each employee and establish a reliable database that reflects the institution’s actual human resources situation.”
The census will cover all personnel working at the National Assembly, “regardless of status, position or organizational unit.” Heads of directorates, units and other departments will be notified progressively of the schedule for staff under their supervision. The process will take place over the two-week period.
The secretary-general has asked all employees concerned to make themselves available at the dates and times communicated to them and to fully cooperate with the exercise. The staff count comes as the parliamentary institution appears to be tightening its human resources management after years in which the former leadership under Cavaye Yeguié Djibril regularly faced allegations — whether justified or not — of preferential hiring at the National Assembly.
By establishing how many employees are actually working at the institution, the new administration aims to create an accurate and up-to-date personnel database, an essential foundation for tighter management of both staffing levels and the payroll.
