Gov’t blamed of stalling school resumption
By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba
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| Tabot Lawson Bakia, Meme 1A section President |
The Section President of the ruling CPDM party for Meme 1A,
Tabot Lawson Bakia fondly called Njalla has blamed the government for retarding
moves towards the effective resumption of the new school year in the crisis hit
Anglophone regions.
Tabot
Lawson dished out his dissatisfaction on the sluggish steps taken by Ministers
of Basics and Secondary Education one month towards the effective resumption of
the 2017/2018 academic year come September 4, 2017 on the sideline of a joint
CPDM Section conference for Meme Division geared towards effective school
reopening under the theme Peace and Dialogue at the Kumba Grandstand.
The
courageous and no nonsense section president revealed that he is against the
Minister of secondary education, Jean Ernest NgaleBibehe for his sluggishness
few weeks to school resumption. Hear him “I am even against the Minister. For
fifteen days to school reopening there has been no transfers” he explained
adding that “the Minister is aware that the Head Teachers and Principals of
some schools and colleges are the cause of the delays for teachers to not go to
school” Tabot Lawson explained.
The
CPDM Meme 1A section president also categorically blamed Minister NgaleBibehe
for failing to do transfers of school officials as well as publish the official
booklist for the next academic year a month before the reopening of the new
school year. He explained that “We are fifteen days to the reopening of the new
school year and the booklist has just been published yesterday. When will
parents rush to buy the books for their children, when will economic operators
who buy these books and sell to people in the hinterlands do so?” adding that
the government in itself is retarding the reopening of the school year.
He
noted that the Education Ministers ought to amplify and accelerate the
activities towards the beginning of the school year. The CDPM bigwig decried
the fact that he has not heard any school principal or an education delegate in
the various government schools in Meme division call for school resumption.
“The people down here have not able to do their jobs to call for school
resumption and so they should be sanctioned” Tabot challenged the powers that
be.
Quizzed
on what his personal efforts are as a section president for Meme 1A towards the
effective resumption of a hitch free academic year, Tabot Lawson simply said “I
have spoken with my SDO and I frowned largely with the authorities of
government secondary schools no their failure to create awareness on the
population towards school resumption.
He
pleaded with parents in the region and particularly those of Kumba to have a
rethink about the development of their children and begged on them all to shun
fear and send children back to school on September 4, 2017. To him, if students
and pupils could attain holiday classes hitch free then nothing should be able
to hinder effective school resumption.
Call For
Non Respect of 3-day Ghost Towns
Tabot Lawson Bakia fondly called Njalla also urged all
parents in the two Anglophone regions of Northwest and Southwest in generally
and Meme Division in particular not to heed to calls for observation of three
days ghost town by “runaway” leaders of the outlawed Anglophone Civil Society
Consortium.
According
to him, the calls for strict respect of ghost towns accompanied by death
threats and acts of arson on citizens and their property in these two regions
of the country is a well calculated move that has been designed by the diaspora
leaders to thwart the resumption of the 2017/2018 academic year come September
4, 2017.
Hear
him “I am using this medium to call on parents that the ghost towns that has
been announced from Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, parents should not heed to
it. The ghost town is geared towards frustrating the opening of the next school
year that is the essence of the ghost town” Tabot explained indignantly.
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