North West: Governor Mobilizes Inhabitants

Anti school threats, ghost town derail resumption in school down town Bamenda.

North West Governor Adolphe Lele Lafrique spent Monday, 6 February, 2017 in Donga Mantung Division where he went round schools, visited some media houses and sensitized inhabitants about the importance of ensuring that children resume schools. The outing first took the Governor to Ndu and Nkambe.
At Renaissance and Savannah community radios, he used the facilities to sensitize the population on the need to respect children’s right to education. He informed them that the teachers’ trade unions that called the strike on November 21, 2016 suspended same on Saturday 4th February 2017 to give the Government a chance to implement recommendations agreed by the Ad hoc inter-ministerial committee created to examine and propose solutions to concerns raised. The Governor and his team visited GBHS Nkambe where some students of the English subsystem were present and 90 from the Francophone subsystem were available for studies. On-the -spot reports equally indicate that the Governor also went sizing up resumption in some primary schools before proceeding to Misaje Subdivision where he continued prescribing reasons for schools to resume.
Back in Bamenda , the suspension of the strike action by the All Anglophone Teachers Trade Unions failed to inspire the resumption of schools for the English subsystem in the city. Inhabitants woke up to another ghost town experience with shops closed down, taxis and commercial motor bikes off the streets .There was little to show for resumption of sch...