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Populations envisage solidarity fund

By Johnson Batuo

As the Anglophone teachers strike gathers steam, some concerned Anglophone parents have mooted the idea of setting up a fund to pay the striking teachers, The Median has gathered.

                We further gathered that the fund is intended to encourage the teachers to carry on with their strike action indefinitely.  We however could not establish when the collection would start and how the funds would be distributed.

                According to one of the Anglophone parents championing the cause, the idea was hatched in an in camera meeting of some concerned Anglophone parents. He further hinted that other meetings have been scheduled by the group before selling the idea to the public.

                Another person who was the part of the planning meeting also told The Median that several person contacted have already sanctioned the idea of creating a fund to assist the striking Anglophone teachers, adding that the teachers ought to be encouraged to keep on with the Anglophone cause.

                Though the creation remains murky for some pertinent reasons, The Median has been reliably informed that the funds raised would not be put in any conventional bank, but in a carefully chosen finance house in town.

                Pending further meetings, the group has embarked on a census of teachers in Meme, beginning with Kumba.