Absentee Meme Politicians Beckoned To Join Back To School Campaign

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba
An administrative authority in Kumba, Meme Division has said politicians in Meme Division are missing in action to campaign for effective resumption of classes in their Division for the new academic year which kicks off this September 2019.
    The senior civil administrator whose names we are withholding told reporters in a chat on the sidelines of an event at the Divisional office recently that politicians in Meme Division have all gone to sleep and are snoring while their peers in other Divisions are fighting hard to ensure the kick-off of classes at their political bases.
    The administrator said politicians in Meme have left the back to school campaign solely in the hands of local administrators, forgetting to know that they are the ones who are supposed to liaise more with the population that elected them. 

    The administrator decried this escapist attitude of Meme politicians who have all abandoned their political bases to seek refuge in safer towns like Yaounde and Douala. 
    “The youths cannot trust their elites because none of them has been here to talk to them or try to convince those in the bushes to lay down their arms and embrace the path to peace and reintegrate themselves in the society,” the administrator said, adding that Meme politicians only resurface in the Division when something concerning their party is at stake. 
    He stated further that it is time for politicians to come back home and carry out back to school campaigns.
    "They should come up with initiatives which can spur the poor parents to send their kids to school before seeing into how they can convince gunmen most of whom are their brothers to lay down their weapons and create an enabling environment for classes to be effective.
    The administrator used the occasion to call on school managers in the Basic and Secondary Education Sectors to shun fear and begin mobilizing their collaborators for effective classes.