PREAMBLE

We, Cameroon Muslim students;
In conformity to verse 10 of surat 49 of the holy Qur'an, in virtue of the constitutional secularity of our country, for the liberty of Associations which is gauranteed by the law n°90/053 of 19 December 1990;
Placed under the total protection of God and deeply aware of the imperials necessarity of the national integration of all the Muslim students in Cameroon;
Considering that Islam is a religion of unity, that Islamic principles of fraternity and of solidarity are the cardinal Virtues, haven of peace, progress and stability of all integrated society;
Bearing in mind that for the harmony of every socio cultural development of all society, the religious has to reconcile with the secular;
Baring in mind;
Knowing too that the double burden of acquiring and popularising knowledge lies on every Muslim believer;
And that the lack of adequate structures constitutes a barrier for the realisation of these noble objectives;

HAVE DELIBERATELY DECIDED

That henceforth, we constitute an association named the ''CAMEROON MUSLIM STUDENTS' UNION'' abbreviated CAMSU.
Determined to work on the path of God in order to set our spiritual development, promote the spirit of fraternity, of solidarity and spiritual Islamic education in the strict respect of the laws of the republic;
We declare ourselves ready to cooperate with all the national and international organisations willing to converge towards the same objectives as those of the CAMSU and we expressly consent the following;

PART 1: THE GENERAL DISPOSITIONS

CHAPTER 1: CREATION, DENOMINATION, DURATION AND THE MOTTO

ARTICLE 1:
An apolitical and non profit making association named ''CAMEROON MUSLIM STUDENTS'UNION'' abbreviated CAMSU has been founded by the Muslim students in Cameroon

ARTICLE 2:
The head office of CAMSU is in Yaounde. It could be transferred to any other place of the national territory by the decision of the congress.

ARTICLE 3:
The duration of CAMSU is unlimited
ARTICLE 4:
The Motto of CAMSU is: FAITH, KNOWLEDGE, SUCCESS

CHAPTER 2: THE OBJECTIVES AND THE MEANS
ARTICLE 5:
The objectives of the CAMSU are notably:
- reinforce the spirit of fraternity and solidarity among students;
- encourage the quest for knowledge and its propagation;
- promote good Islamic morals within and without the Campus ;
- to train and supervise students in Lycees and colleges
ARTICLE 6:
To achieve these objectives, CAMSU acts notably by the promotion of cultural activities and social actions in conformity to the principles of Islam:
- participate in symposiums, national and international conferences,
- All the processes towards information on the Muslim culture, Organisation of meetings, workshops, seminars, radio and television broadcasting, articles or brochures, publications, Islamic journal of information, holiday camps, etc…
- Organisations of Islamic and Arabic language classes in the various establishments

CHAPTER III: THE QUALITY OF MEMBERS

ARTICLE 7:
1- CAMSU comprises 3 categories of members:
§ active members
§ adherent members
§ honorary members
a) Is an active member, each and every student, member of the executive bureau or having any post of responsibility in the structure.
b) Are adherent members, all Muslim students behind the objectives of CAMSU and who pay their annual contributions while giving their moral and intellectual contributions for the realisation of the said objectives.
c) Are honorary members, all physical moral Muslim persons susceptible to render notable services to the CAMSU
2-
a) The quality of membership is gotten by obtaining the membership card.
b) It is lost:
o by death;
o by resignation
o by dismissal pronounced by the congress.

3- Any person who loses his membership quality could not hope for any reimbursement of his annual contribution, adhesion fees, or any gift awarded to the union, no matter the circumstances.

4- However, with respect to the paragraph 2,b) the loss of the status of student does not lead to the loss of membership

PART II: THE ORGANISATION AND FUNCTIONING

CHAPTER 1: THE ORGANISATION

The Organs of the CAMSU are:
- the Congress
- the National Office
- the National Shourah
- the Regions

ARTICLE 8:
The congress is the supreme organ of the union and made up of the regional delegates and the members of the national office

ARTICLE 9:
The national office is made up of:
- A President,
- A National Vice Président
- The National Secretary General
- The 1st assistant Secretary General
- The 2nd assistant Secretary General
- The Director of Economic and Financial Affairs
- The Director of Education and Predication
- The Director of the Judicial Affairs, Discipline and Control
- The Director of Investments and Social Affairs
- The Director of Communication, culture and New Technologies
- The Director of Sports and the Health
- The Director in Charge of Material and Statistics
- The Director of Women Affairs

ARTICLE 10:
The National Shourah is exclusively made up of all the regional presidents

ARTICLE 11:
Paragraph 1- The regional office is made up of:
· a regional president,
· a Vice Predisent,
· A Secretary General
· An Assistant Secretary General
· A Treasurer
· Two Financial Secretaries
· An Officer in charge of Communication
· An Officer in charge of Investments and Statistics
· An Officer in charge of Education and Predication
· A Division in charge of Women Affairs
However, the Regional President could create other posts of responsibilities in the domains he think necessary for the well being of the Union at the regional level.

Paragraph 2- Delimitation of the regions.
a) The region of Ngaoundere covering the Adamawa, North and Extreme-North provinces
b) The region of Yaounde I covering the Center and South provinces
c) The region of Yaounde II covering all the Mefou and Afamba Division in the Center and all the Eastern province
d) The Region of Douala covering the Littoral province
e) The Region of Bamenda covering the North-West province
f) The region of Buea covering the South province
g) The region of Dschang covering the entire West province

CHAPTER II: FUNCTIONING

ARTICLE 13: THE CONGRESS
1) The congress of CAMSU meets once annually in an ordinary session on convocation of either the National President or the interim national president
However, an extraordinary session could be convocated respectively by the National President or on demand of 2/3 of the Regional Presidents.
2) The congress:
· votes and arranges the budget,
· adopts the constitution ,
· approves the general policies of the meetings of the national office,
· fixes the rate of contribution of members,
· approves the appointment of the Amir, and if not approved, the Shourah meets immediately for a second time to appoint another Amir different from the one disapproved

ARTICLE 14: THE NATIONAL OFFICE
Paragraph 1- Its attributions
o Coordinate the activities of the regions
o Execute the budget
o Represent the Union where ever need arises
o Apply the orientations defined by the congress
o Organise the congress and other seatings of national and/or international scale

Paragraph 2- The National President
a) The National President is appointed by the National Shourah for a mandate of 2 Years, renewable once .
b) He assumes office right from the moment he takes oath in Islamic faith before the congress .
c) Conditions of eligibility:

The candidate for the National presidency must :
q be a Cameroonian student regularly registered in at least the second year in one of the university institutions in Cameroon.
q Reside in the region of the seat of the CAMSU .
q Fulfil the Islamic conditions for the eligibility of an Amir.
q Be in full possession of acceptable Islamic moral qualities.
q Be available and Islamically integrated
d) The National President appoints and dismisses all the other members of the national office.
e) He negotiates cooperations with other national and international associations subject to the respect of the right of approval of the National office
f) He sees to it that the status is respected and the objective are realised
g) The functions of the National president are incompatible with all the functions susceptible to the designation of CAMSU
h) In case there is a temporal hitch of the National president, the Vice National President or any other member of the National office receives an express delegation of powers and exercises the regular functions passed on to him
i) In case of the vacancy of the National President caused by death, resignation, permanent physical and/or mental incapacity, likely to affect the smooth running of the association or by a definite hitch duly noticed by the Shourah, the powers of the National President are automatically exercised by the Vice President and if the later is hitched too, by the Secretary General until the next congress.
j) The interim national President, the substitute of the National President temporary hitched, can modify neither status , the internal regulation, nor the constitutions of the office. However the interim national President can summon the congress in an ordinary session

Paragraph 3- The functioning modalities and the attributions of the members of the national office shall be defined by the internal regulation

ARTICLE 15: THE REGIONAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Paragraph 1- the General Assembly is the supreme organ of the Union at the regional level. It appoints the regional delegates who would participate in the congress.
It gives a verdict on all problems and projects of regional character and is headed by the regional President who has to give an account of the decisions to the National bureau
Paragraph 2- the Regional Assembly holds twice annually in ordaniry session on summon by the Regional President. It can equally meet in extraordinary sessions on summon by the President or 2/3 of the members of the regional office

Paragraph 3- For fear of invalidity, the decision taken by the regional general Assembly must be in conformity to the status as well as all the dispositions of the regional internal regulation

ARTICLE 16: THE REGIONAL OFFICE
Paragraph 1- The Regional Office is the managing organ of the Union at the regional level. It applies the orientations of the Union in strict collaboration with the national office to which it has to give spontaneous or periodic accounts. It conceives activities generating funds for the functioning of the Union at the level of the region and pays a certain percentage of these financial entries, fixed by the congress and expressly noted in the national internal regulation, to the national office which in compensation elaborates the policy of distribution of revenues and investments.

Paragraph 2- The regional office assures and supervises the Islamic cultural activities within the college and university campuses of the region.

Paragraph 3- The Regional President is appointed by the Shourah of the Regional Assembly. He must absolutely be a Muslim university student regularly registered in any university in Cameroon.

ARTICLE 17: THE ATTRIBUTIONS OF THE SHOURAH
The National Shourah appoints the National President after the consultation of both the members of the outgoing National Office and the old members.
The Shourah can by the majority of 2/3 of its members, notice the failure of the National President, and as such summon an extraordinary congress, which would have to approve the opportunity to dismiss or to maintain him in his duties.
The National Bureau has to submit all proposals susceptible to involve the future of the association to the approval of the Shourah.The decision taken by the shourah in this case would be of public order.

PART III: FINANCIAL DISPOSITIONS

CHAPTER I: GENERALITIES

ARTICLE 18:
The budgetary year runs from 1st November to 31 October of the following year .

ARTICLE 19: The National President assures the execution of the budget.

ARTICLE 20: The budget of CAMSU is annual. It is balanced in income and expenditure.

CHAPTER II: THE RESOURCES

ARTICLE 21: The resources of CAMSU come from:
q Members' contributions
q Sales of its products (Cards, brochures, journals…)
q Zakat of muslims
q Sadakat
q Gifts
q Legacies.

ARTICLE 22: The funds of CAMSU have to be kept in an account opened in a banking institution in its unique name. Withdrawal is done under the triple signature of the President, the Director of Economic and Financial Affaires and the Treasurer.

CHAPTER III: EXPENDITURES

ARTICLE 23: The expenditures of CAMSU are those that correspond to the plan of action drawn in congress or in Regional General Assemblies.

ARTICLE 24: The incuring of expenditures is submited to the signature of the President. However, the President can delagate his power in matters concerning current expenditures to any member of the National Offfice or to the Regional Presidents.

ARTICLE 25: The accounting of the CAMSU follows the rules of the private accounting, in conformity to the Islamic legislations.

CHAPTER IV- THE FINANCIAL CONTROLE

ARTICLE 26:
The Department of Economic and Financial Affaires assures the regularity of the financial and accounting operations. It executes the special tasks defined by the internal regulation of the National Bureau.
ARTICLE 27: The reports of the Department of Economic and Financial Affaires are addressed to the National and Regional offices.

PART IV - THE FINAL DISPOSITIONS

ARTICLE 28: Any violation of the dispositions of this constitution leads to sanctions provided by the internal regulation.

ARTICLE 29 :In case of dispute in the National Bureau, the Shourah is the competent organ to rule.

ARTICLE 30: Any association pursuing the same objectives as the CAMSU can be requested for needs of collaboration or fusion.
CAMSU can adhere to other national or international organisations aimed at promoting Islam and Social humanitarian works.
The decisions for fusion or adhesion are taken in congress on proposition of the National Bureau.

ARTICLE 31: The present constitution can be modified at any moment by the congress on proposition of the National Bureau or 2/3 of the regional presidents.
The modifications are adopted on the majority of 2/3 of the valid votes.

ARTICLE 32:

Paragraph 1- The dissolution of CAMSU can only be pronounced by the congress summoned in an extraordinary session no the initiative of the President or of at least 3/4 of the members of congress.
The decision is taken on majority of 2/3 of the members present.

Paragraph 2- The extraordinary congress is made up of:
o The whole national office
o Ten members from each regional office

Paragraph 3- The congress cannot rule unless at least 3/4 of its members are present.

ARTICLE 33: In case of dissolution, the congress decides on the net assets of the CAMSU, which could only be handed down to an Islamic association or institution pursuing the same objectives as CAMSU.

ARTICLE 34: The internal regulation annexed to this status fixes the modalities of its application. Each regional office has only an internal regulation in conformity to the status, but taking into consideration the regional specificities.

ARTICLE 35: The present status adopted today by the congress immediately gets into application.

ARTICLE 36: The National President is the guarantor of the strict respect of the dispositions of this status.

The National President

ABAKAR ALHADJI