The SDF has created in its constitution 'Standing Committees' with well-defined areas of responsibility and these areas of responsibility cover all the competencies needed to run a country like Cameroon: Agriculture, Rural Development, Economy, Defence, National Security, Science and Technology, Health, Information and Media, etc.
Each Standing Commission is chaired by a President and a Vice-President appointed by the National Chairman of the Party. It is then the Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the Standing Committees who constitute the Party's Shadow Cabinet.
In the Anglo-Saxon political system, the Shadow Cabinet forms an alternative to the government in office in the country. The Shadow Cabinet members individually mark each member of the government and have a duty to be ready at any time to ascend to power and exercise the responsibilities of government. In the case of the SDF, in addition to this screening and control of the government in power, the Shadow Cabinet members, through the Standing Committees they head, support the work of the NEC and the elected members of the party at all levels with their advice and reflections, thus providing additional expertise that enables the SDF to better fulfil its constitutional role.
Here is the list of members of the new SDF Shadow Cabinet appointed by Chairman John Fru Ndi on 16 June 2022:
The Chairman of the SDF Ni John Fru did not write the letter addressed to lawyer Agbor Nkongho that is currently circulating on social networks. It is a fake made up to give credibility to the rumours circulating against the SDF hierarchy that the Social Democratic Front is negotiating with the Biya regime to join a government of national unity in Cameroon. Read below the statement issued today by Barrister Adeline Djomgang, Secretary General of the SDF.
Mr. Alain Fogue and Mr. Bibou Nissack - unjustly arrested when they did not even participate in the peaceful march of 22 September 2020 - have just been charged more than a year later by the Yaoundé military court on the basis of reasons typical of totalitarian regimes. Several other militants of the CRM have also received appalling sentences of between 2, 5, 6 years in prison following a mock trial on the same fallacious grounds by a justice system under the orders of Mr. BIYA, president of the Superior Council of the Judiciary.
Starting on 1 January 2022, all associations and tontines will be forced to pay new taxes: VAT, IT (Income Tax), IRCM (Tax on Income from Transferable Capital) as well as the additional communal centimes. A real scandal. This new taxation is neither regulated by OHADA nor by any financial regime.
