(Presidential Elections 2018 | Programme of Candidate Joshua Osih )
Joshua Nambangi Osih, born on 9 December 1968, was the man chosen by the SDF to run as the candidate of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) for the 2018 presidential elections. He had gathered around him a coalition called 'Together for a Better Cameroon'; below is the programme that this coalition presented to the voters.
(See below for a more detailed presentation of some of these points)
THE 24 STRONG MEASURES FOR 24 MILLION DREAMS!
- Increase of the minimum wage to 160,000 CFA francs over 5 years!
- Double the salary of civil servants over 5 years!
- A land ownership title for each Cameroonian family!
- Abolish advance rents and regularise the landlord/tenant relationship!
- Introduce incentives indexed to labour hardship for civil servants and similar staff in rural and difficult areas to fight against absenteeism and abandonment of posts.
- Introduce a local government content orientation law and impose it from the first year in public procurement.
- Free pre- and post-natal consultations up to the age of 2, as well as free care for caesarean deliveries.
- Introduction of health coverage of 500,000 CFA francs per household per year for a premium of 1,000 CFA francs per person per month.
- Introduction of a school grant for children from the most disadvantaged households.
- Free and compulsory schooling until the end of the first cycle and abolition of schooling in state universities and grandes écoles
- Education programme: Develop infrastructure and digital capacity to transform teaching and education.
- Shut down ENAM
- Abolition of fixed road controls.
- Integration of the vigilance committees (CoVi) active in the northern and eastern parts of the country into the police force.
- Form of state: federalism based on the current 10 regions.
- Two-round presidential election for a five-year term, renewable once, and introduction of a single ballot.
- Opening of a National Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Conference.
- Establishment of a disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programme.
- Relocation of the capital of the Centre Region to another locality in the Centre.
- Establish administrations and public services in their centres of interest.
- Establish our monetary sovereignty.
- Reduce the size of the government to a maximum of 20 ministers.
- Actively promote the Transaqua project to supply water to the Lake Chad basin.
- Propose Cameroon's bid to co-host the 2030 World Cup with two sub-Saharan African countries.
POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROGRAMME
To regain PEACE, WORK and HOME!
MY CONTRACT WITH THE NATION
To build a new Cameroon by the force of will, the duty to act and innovation!
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Purchasing power to regain our dignity
Creation of a minimum wage of 160,000 CFA francs over 5 years
Double the salary of civil servants over 5 years
Each Cameroonian family to have its own land title.
Abolition of advance rents and regularisation of the landlord/tenant relationship.
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A decent job for a conquering generation
Establishment of a guarantee fund for young entrepreneurship.
Introduction of incentives indexed to hardship for civil servants in rural/difficult areas to combat absenteeism and job abandonment.
Revision of the Labour Code for greater equity and justice.
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A State that acts for those who have less
Free pre- and post-natal consultations up to the age of two.
Free care for caesarean deliveries.
Introduction of health coverage of 500,000 CFA francs per household per year for a premium of 1000 CFA francs per person per year.
Equal opportunities for all our children - Education for a new nation.
School grants for children from the most disadvantaged households.
Free and compulsory schooling until the end of the first cycle
Free tuition at state universities and colleges
Zero interest advance for the school credit of civil servants and state employees covered by the labour code.
Education programme: Developing infrastructure and digital capacity to transform teaching and education
Reform the education system by promoting science and technology to bring it into line with our development needs
Abolish ENAM
HIGHER EDUCATION
Electing university officials.
Systematic recruitment of PhD holders.
Academic and administrative autonomy of universities.
To heal our wounds and share our desires for the future
Release the entrepreneurial potential of Cameroonians (trade)
Put in place a law on the orientation of local content and impose it from the first year in the public order
A Cameroon that protects all its citizens
Abolish fixed road controls.
Integrate vigilance committees into the police force.
Allocate appropriate and efficient means to the basic units of the forces of law and order
DEFENCE AND SECURITY
Introduce national service and give priority to those who have done so for access to the civil service.
Have one well-equipped and well-paid army.
Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programme.
Build a new Cameroon through the strength of our diversity
1- FORM OF THE STATE
1.1 Federalism based on the current 10 regions.
1.2 Relocating the capital of the Central Region to another town in the Central Region.
1.3. LOCAL COMPETENCES
- Basic and secondary education
- Economic development
- Urban planning and housing
- Local infrastructure
- Public works
- Health care
- Agriculture
- Fishing
- Livestock
Culture and national languages
1.4. FEDERAL COMPETENCES
- Currency.
- Defence.
- Foreign affairs.
- Natural resources.
- Higher education.
- Justice.
- Telecommunications.
- Police.
- Citizenship.
- Finance.
School curriculum.
1- INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS
- 10-state federalism
- Presidential system at federal level and parliamentary system at local level.
- Establishment of the offices of President and Vice President
- Abolition of the posts of Prime Minister, Governor and Prefect
- Reduce the size of the federal government to a maximum of 20 ministers
- Introduction of impeachment.
- Two-round voting at federal level and proportional (mixed?) voting at local level.
- Creation of the Court of Audit
- Electoral age of majority at 18 years.
- Gender parity in all political bodies.
- Status of the opposition.
- Introduction of dual nationality.
- Reform of the electoral commission.
Bilingualism as a major condition for access to the public service at federal level
2- LAND ADMINISTRATION
- Reliable general census of the population.
- Promote and densify the visual identity of the public administration to re-establish the authority of the State.
- Give the monopoly of water distribution to the communes.
- Locate administrations and public services in their centres of interest.
To value rurality and put it back at the centre of our growth
- Devote at least 10% of local budgets to agriculture, fishing and livestock.
- Opening up production basins
- Modernisation of agriculture through the generalisation of mechanisation and the extension of agricultural inputs.
- Land reform: census and registration of agricultural land to make it bankable and protect it against land predators.)
- Increase the rate of access to water and electricity.
A new growth model for Cameroonians
1- ECONOMY AND FINANCE
1.1 Establish our monetary sovereignty.
1.2. Actively promote the Trans aqua project to supply water to the Lake Chad basin.
1.3. Improve the business climate: intensify the fight against corruption and impunity, simplify administrative procedures and reduce processing time.
1.4. Change the economic model.
- Fight against currency flight and the consequent collapse of the balance of trade and the balance of payments.
- Fight against the extraversion of the economy.
- Promotion of public-private partnership and BOT for the construction of infrastructures.
- Mandatory local processing in the exploitation of certain resources.
- Creation of a national investment bank.
- Lowering the interest rate on credits and increasing the interest rate on savings
- Implement a development tax system that encourages production.
1.5. FINANCING
- Banking sector: PPP AND BOT.
- Fiscal restructuring.
- Cleaning up public finances (state balance file, elimination of waste and unproductive expenditure)
- Tax, oil, customs and mining revenues
2- TRANSPORT
- Promote the local assembly of vehicles.
- Develop inter-urban rail transport.
- Re-establish the pride of the national fleet.
- Make Douala a real hub.