« Mr. Essian André Noël is, from the date of signing of this Office decree, appointed Secretary General of the National Assembly“. The information is given in an order signed by Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, the President of the National Assembly (PAN) this November 24, 2023. Confirming information which was already circulating in social networks, as the letter of non-objection sent by the PAN to the President of the Republic did not benefit from any the required confidentiality. In reality, the former mayor of Sangmélima replaces Gaston Komba relieved of his duties on January 28, 2022. Since then, Abdoulaye Daouda, the deputy secretary general, was acting in the post, with the mission of managing day-to-day affairs. The latter will have managed the administrative affairs of the Lower House for 22 months.
Will André Noël Essian, who was installed on the same day of his appointment, succeed where his predecessors failed? Only time will reveal the answer, as the position has become very ejectable. In four years, the general secretariat of the National Assembly has already seen three incumbents. In June 2019, Désiré Geoffroy Mbock appointed on June 19, 2018, was suspended from signing by his hierarchy, before being replaced in April 2020 by Gaston Komba. The former Nkam deputy arrived, parachuted through the networks of the Presidency of the Republic, we learned. The man known for his rigor has initiated an operation to clean up the management of the institution renowned for its financial gluttony. The man will encounter resistance from the leaders of secular authority in the 3rd institution of the Republic. He disembarked in January 2022 and replaced by his deputy for an interim period which ended on November 24, 2023.
The prison box
It is an old hand in politics who arrives at the head of the National Assembly. André Noël Essian has come a long way in the ranks of Democratic gathering of the Cameroonian people (RDPC), the ruling party. But the man was removed from the head of the commune of the district where the President of the Republic Paul Biya comes from. In a context of positional war in the Dja and Lobo, André Noël Essian was disembarked. More serious, the man went to prison in July 2018. After an appearance before the investigating judge of the Special Criminal Court (TCS) on July 26, 2018, the man will be transferred to Kondengui central prison the next day. An investigation was opened into its management by the Superior State Control in 2013 and the State Budgetary Discipline Council had detected management errors in the town hall records. The president of the Rdpc section of Dja and Lobo 1 will only spend one night there, before being released. He will not be renewed in 2020 to continue his lease at the head of the commune of Sangmélima. A few months ago André Noël Essian resigned from his position as president of Colombe du Dja et Lobo, a team in the elite national football championship. It is therefore a spectacular leap for the one who had remained under the snuffer since then.
