Launch of School Year in Meme Division:

Education Delegate advocates reinforced security in schools

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

The Divisional Delegate of Secondary Education for Meme, Abunaw Aghim Obase, has odered all principals and school heads in the entire Division to re-enforce security within their schools in order to guard against acts of arson that has for over sometime targeted school buildings in the Division thereby instilling fear in the students and hindering massive turnout of student in for the 2017/2018 school year. 

                “The priority of school managers today should center on securing their school and making them a veritable place for learning” explained Abunaw Aghim adding that every school in Meme division should have at least ten security persons that look after the school both in the day and night. To him, this will greatly reduce the rate of fear amongst the population and it will immensely improve student turnout in the various schools in the division.

                He told all the principals and school heads that per the ministerial prescription for the current school year, priority is given to security. He advice all principals to ensure that the PTA fund which is colledted is adequately use to ensure presence good security in all schools in the division.

                Abunaw Aghim Obase was speaking during the first secondary education sector conference for the 2017/2018 academic year that took place on Friday September 29, 2016 in Kumba under the theme “Second Generation Education for the Training of Citizens Capable of Promoting Multiculturalism and Living Together”. To Aghim Obase, the theme is timely, apt and highly invaluable looking at the just ended troubled academic year and the beginning of the current school amidst the current crisis in the two aggrieved Anglophone regions.

                The delegate urged all teachers in the entire division to teach with a lot of professionalism and be abreast with current methodology in teaching. He urged all and sundry to shun vices such as laxity, absenteeism, amateurism, corruption, absence of civic mindedness, violence in school milieu, indiscipline and laziness manifested by some school heads, staff and students.

                The Delegate stated that his delegation is working with school heads to ensure that structures are put in place to collaboration between all schools in the division and the delegation and to with immediate effect stop some acts of principals who think their schools are separated from the delegation.

                It should be noted that the meeting was presided at by the First Assistant Senior Divisional Officer for Meme Verkline Epoulewane Mbua who emphasized on the area of security in schools and the whole community at large.