Back to school preoccupies Bali CPDM bigwigs

By Francis Nzante in Bamenda

HRH Senator Dr. Ganyonga III Doh of Bali

His Royal Highness Senator Dr. Ganyonga III Doh of Bali, Doh Jerome, Secretary of State for Penitentiary at the Ministry of Justice, Senator EnoLafon Emma, the Director of Customs Edwin Fongod, the CPDM Section President for Mezam III Gwanyala Raymond, NgohAjongSylvanusDobgima the Lord Mayor of Bali Council amongst other bigwigs from Bali have thrown their weight behind the struggle for schools to resume in September. The call for schools to resume was made at the weekend during the Mezam III CPDM Joint Section Confrence at the Palace Hall in Bali.

                HRH Senator Dr. Ganyonga III Doh called on Cameroonians to be moderate in the way they practice politics. He said every important person today is a product of education that he received when growing up further calling on every one to put their hands on deck to make sure that children resume school in September. Intimating that CPDM was a party that could turn anybody into anything he called on all to everything to avoid the Rwadan situation in Cameroon. Splitting of the nation could not be the solution to the problems the country is going through he said and frowned at Cameroonians in the diaspora who wanted Cameroon scattered. “There are problems and we as part of this society also feel the pinch but this doesn’t mean children shouldn’t go to school”, he said.

                On his part, Edwin Fongod, the Director of Customs said that the President of the Republic H.E. Paul Biya had accepted that there were problems and that since then the results of his efforts have been positive. The General Certificate of Education he said had been written and marked pending results.

Decisions he said had been taken touching on Basic, Secondary and Higher Education adding that teachers had been recruited as reconciliatory moves towards meeting some of the demands of the teachers.

                Doh Jerome, Secretary of State in charge of the Penitentiary Administration at the Ministry of Justice called for a reinforcement of registrations in schools and said a scholarship Fund of 10 million FCFA had been created and that it was still open for those who wanted to contribute. He explained that with the reopening of schools, students were going to benefit from this scholarship fund. Children he said must go back to school and that in the upcoming elections Cameroonians would vote for one and indivisible Cameroon devoid of intoxication, hypocrisy and political demagogy. At the end of the joint conference at least 7.2   Million FCFA had been raised and contributions kept coming in.

                Senator Eno Emma Lafon who came in as a guest said irrespective of the problem riddled circumstances disturbing the society; children simply had to go to school because all these problems actually had nothing to do with the education of children. While problems were being solved children could as well be going to school she explained. “So I think that while adults and civil society activists are struggling to solve their problems, children should be going to school otherwise we will pay dearly and jeopardize generations that we did not cater for.”