In another thoughts: The Midnight Call.

And take note that the right to education does not only involve going to school. Going to school and sitting in a class is just an art or call it a process to education. Going to school is not a right in itself. There is a difference between school and education. While school is not a right in itself, education is a right. School is an art, a movement, a process , a building in achieving something which is Education. Education involves so many components amongst which must not necessarily involve the art of going to school but in most cases schools or schooling forms the corner stone of education.

Therefore, the rights to education involves the right to study in a serene atmosphere as well as the right to have quality education, all UNESCO standards. These last two are missing in our case. The responsibility lies on both camps; the people’s revolution (Southern Cameroonians) vs the Republic Of Cameroun(Government) to ensure that an atmosphere for resumption is serene with the onus being on the government.

How then do we say schools should resume? Do we just want students to go sit in a class? What happens to thousands who respected the people’s call and boycotted the political GCE? The stubborn ones who failed the political GCE ? and those who passed with very poor heavy grades like never seen before? Will everyone in form ones to four and lower sixth whom for a year have not been taught just be promoted to the next class? Will there be enough space for those coming back as over 90 percent in Southern Cameroons boycotted the exams? Most importantly, has the government settled all the catalogue of problems teachers wrote as they went on strike on November 21st, 2016? NO.

These are the issues which must be looked into in a dialogue committee. The government must rise up above trying to proof a point, scoring political points or trying to compare with the people who is strong or not. The government must be the people and do the right thing: Releasing all Southern Cameroonians unconditionally, bring those on exile safely home, condemns actions on both sides, apologise to those who died as a result of this crisis, anknowledge the “Anglophone problem”, constitute a dialogue committee to start the process of solving the root causes with the UN or AU as a moderator, constitute a reconciliation committee of persons of high moral and religious rectitudes to start the healing process and yes this country may still have a chance of its peoples living together in a form as determined by them….otherwise I am afraid.

This is the gentle Mark Bareta talking. The radicalised one is coming next with fire and fury to consume anyone against our liberation. The words of the gentle Mark Bareta should help the government out if at all they listen.

Good Morning.