Parents of Fako Division have sent a very strong message to Fako administrators advocating for children to resume school come next Monday September 4, 2017. The parents have requested the Senior Division Officer (SDO) for Fako and his collaborators to lead the way for children to return to school, before they (parents) will be convinced to send theirs.
The parents echoed the strong message recently during an enlarge meeting organised by the Fako boss, Emmanuel Engama Ledoux, to lieu parents to send their back to school. The meeting organised at the Limbe City Council deliberative Chambers, was attended by a cross section of parents in Fako, municipal and administrative authorities, politicians, and youths.
According to parents, a lot of insecurity looms in the air. It would be unthoughtful to send their children to school who risk being hurt by some unknown people. The parents advised Fako authorities to take the lead by sending their children first before others will follow.
“Every day we hear burning here and there around the division. We cannot risk our children’s life by sending them to schools that can be attacked. We wish for Fako authorities to send their children first, and after one week of observation, we can begin sending ours,” A parent said in the hall.
All security assurances given by the authorities seemed to have fallen to deaf ears as parents kept on insisting the environment is unsuitable for effective resumption of schools. Parents even feared for the safety of their children in the hands of the security forces. They condemned the arbitrary arrest of Anglophones and being fared to Yaounde.
“We are not happy with the way Anglophones are being arrested here and there. It is gradually becoming a normalcy for people to be picked on the streets and immediately fared to Yaounde. How are we sure some of our children will not be picked in school and taken to Yaounde as well?” questioned another parent.
Corroborating some of the points of the parents, Senator Mbella Moki Charles said municipal, administrative, and even traditional authorities must first take their children to school, to prove to the world that they practice what they preach.
“There’s a gap between learners and school. We the parents can only fill that gap. Come September 4, I implore everyone, politicians, traditional authorities, municipal authorities, and even administrators, to hold their children by the hand and take them to school,” Mbela Moki said.
The meeting wrapped up with the SDO literally begging parents to secure his job as their divisional administrator, by sending their children back to school. He even cajoled some parents by saying his administration is willing to fund the tuition of any parent who is unable to afford school fees for the academic year.
By Lucas Muma,
Managing Editor, BaretaNews
4 comments
People of Ambazonia don’t get fooled again. Nothing has changed. The colonial government is playing games with us. There is a much better future for our children in an independent country. Therefore school shall not resume on Monday.
most of these colonial puppets children are either abroad,ready to go abroad or in expensive fee pay boarding schools,the majority of these local parents have been bribed, fooled and lied to by colonial clowns for 56 years, their children cannot get good jobs, cannot speak good English, speak mbonda french, the many graduates cannot find work, they are either idle,selling pittance phone cards,puff-puff, cigarette etc, most of their grown up adults children are still dependent on them for their everyday daily bread,rely on transfer money from relatives abroad or from one family member with a small job, it has been the same sad pattern in the last 56 years, many diaspora do not want to return because the lrc regime is poison, parent at this time must listen to the good change which is coming, they should start to drive all these colonial clowns rats out of the SCs regions
What we should remember is that with that regime the shit will go on. We have the power of changing things. We saw now that with peaceful disobedience we pressed some of our leaders out of jail. No bullet was wasted for that. We as the people of Ambazonia have a right to 21st century education. Not that bullshit brought over from la Republique. If we want to become first class citizens we’re obliged to continue that struggle.
No resumption of school, that seems to be the consensus. The children, parents, teachers, lawyers and of course every Southern Cameroonian are paying the price. Let’s continue to advocate solutions to alleviate the suffering instead of always stating what should be done.Let’s work with SCACUF to teach the children via tablets or smart phones. PROGRAMS can be delivered to the students from the diaspora as they do with the money they send home. We should also continue to outsmart this barbaric regime, with new ideas, to help the home front survive during these difficult times, help economically, physiologically and politically. Let’s challenge each other to come up with a new idea every day for SCACUF, our leaders and the courageous people back home to frustrate this mafia junta and propel to VICTORY