By Johnson Batuo in Kumba
Primary School Pupils in Meme Division in
the southwest region Thursday 27 April 2017 began taking the practical part of
the first school living certificate Examination under heavy security.
The
public examinations are taking place even when most of the pupils have not
attended classes for over six months.
In
one of the centres this reporter visited at Fiango, a few innocent and
unsuspecting pupils could be seen running up and down the school field waiting
for the others to attend. Sitting inside the gate was a gun-toting policeman.
Two other heavily armed policemen in riot gear wearing helmets could be seen
patrolling the length and breadth of the school campus.
A private security guard employed by the
school told this reporter that the security agents were called in simply to
protect the teachers and pupils. But he queried the kind of examination the
pupils were sitting giving that they have been out of school for almost six
months.
This
reporter was hinted that most of the pupils who took part in practical phase of
the FSLC examination were either those attending Government primary schools or
those in francophone schools.
Intriguingly,
the government primary school in Fiango where the FSLC Examination is taking
place is one of the public primary schools in Kumba where not even a single
pupil has been attending school since the teachers strike started on 21 October
2016.
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