Governance: The Board of Directors gives discharge to the General Management for its management

This was during the work of the^35th ordinary session of the Board of Directors of the INS, on May 27, 2022.

No less than nine items were on the agenda of the^35th Ordinary Session of the Board of Directors of the INS on May 27, 2022 in Yaoundé from 9 a.m., all of them as important as each other. However, five subjects were the subject of a more in-depth examination by the members of the august body. These include the state of implementation of the recommendations of previous sessions, the review of the collective budgets for the 2021 and 2022 financial years, the assessment of the INS’s activities for the 2021 financial year and finally the recruitment plan for the year 2022.

In its administrative monitoring function, the Council, through its President, Minister Emmanuel NGANOU DJOUMESSI, asked the General Management to ensure the effective implementation of the recommendations that are made within the framework of its work. After learning about the additional funding received from the various technical and financial partners for the technical support provided by the INS, the two collective budgets for the 2021 and 2022 financial years respectively were adopted.

It is with greater interest that the Council examined the accounts of the National Institute of Statistics for the 2021 financial year. In this regard, the Director General of the INS, Joseph TEDOU, was the first to speak about his administrative account contained in the Annual Performance Report. he then handed over the lectern to the Specialized Financial Controller at the INS, Etienne NGOUN who presented his Budget Execution and Control Report. Finally, it was the Accounting Officer of the INS, Éric TCHIDJO who took the floor to present his management account

At the end of these three interventions, the Directors wanted to inquire about the coherence of the documents presented. It was then that the Certificate of Concordance signed by the three officials was presented to the Council.

This weighty argument convinced the members of the Board of the quality of the management that was done by the financial managers, then was given to them for the 2021 budget year.

In view of the problem of understaffing, in addition to the ever-increasing workload of the NSI, the 2022 recruitment plan was adopted by the Council without difficulty. After more than two hours of exchanges as part of the work of the Ordinary Session, it was around 1 p.m. that the^17th extraordinary session opened with the only item on the agenda, the alignment of the INS texts with the regulations in force on the allocation of allowances to the members of the working groups.

In addition, the Board welcomed a new Executive Director representing the Presidency of the Republic. Ahmadou Sali replaces Rachel Aïssatou in this position, to whom the Council paid a beautiful tribute.

The work of the two sessions ended around 2 p.m. with the signing of several resolutions.