Bamenda : Prime Minister Enhances Chances For Schools Resumption

Stakeholders acknowledged that failure to educate children is losing empowerment requirements by protesting Anglophone Teachers.

"The government will review the end-of-year calendar and it is important to make the North West great by getting children back to school.”That is how the visiting Prime Minister Head of Government Philemon Yang dropped curtains on the first lap nof his visit of the North West Region on March 6, 2017. It was in Bamenda and Bambili where he presided at frank discussions with education stakeholders as efforts to ensure that schools resume for the English subsystem of education in Mezam Division. The event encouraged parents to have their children in school after patiently keeping them at home with fear to blame following threats by unidentified people. The Prime Minister was in Bamenda with a message of peace and reconciliation from President Paul Biya who has received all concerns raised by protesting teachers and Lawyers, analysed them and made a clear statement about it. The PM said it is against this backdrop that Adhoc inter-ministerial committees were created to ensure a successful handling of the concerns plus the creation of the mediator of the Republic or better still; the Commission on Bilingualism and multiculturalism to help Cameroonians live together successfully. It was a moment for the PM to stress the need for all to dominate fear from elsewhere by people who may not even have the experience to run a village. The PM acknowledged that strikes and ghost towns have harmed all but violence and brutal act will be wrong at all times. Ghost towns will not put bread on tables of innocent children and business people and it is time to shun children from political battles, he said. He encouraged all to quickly turn from anger and move forward with a special appeal for tolerance with the forces of law and order whose only massive presence around is to protect people and property in times like thi.
On the issue of marginalisation against Anglophones, PM Philemon Yang acknowledged that the North West Region is not yet in heaven, just like the other regions of Cameroon. He revealed that the government is talking with the Worl...