Cameroon - Anglophone Crisis: At least 4300 Teachers Abandon Schools In North West

Par Kiven B. NSODZEFE | Cameroon-Info.Net
Bamenda - 20-Jul-2019 - 13h08   2468                      
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Un enseignant dans une salle de classe Jean Areguema
Education authorities in Bamenda, North West region, have revealed that some 4,344 teachers have been displaced as a result of the ongoing sociopolitical unrest in the region.

Stakeholders were examining possibilities of an effective resumption of schools for the academic year 2019/2020, where they realised that one of their problems, remains the displacement of these teachers.

They met in Bamenda on Tuesday, presided by the Secretary General of the region, Lanyuy Harry Ngwanyi, where it was disclosed that 3,074 schools have been abandoned.

It was also revealed that 7086 schools need rehabilitation, 167 schools have been destroyed unidentified persons, 36 schools burnt down and vandalised, while 3,036 schools are to be cleaned up thoroughly because it had been abandoned for over two years.

Mr. Ngwanyi, said it was an opportunity for educational stakeholders, to table their upheavals on the table, for him to channel them to hierarchy so as to ease school resumption.

" We must strive to be better than we were yesterday. We cannot strive to be worst than where we were yesterday ", encouraged the Secretary General.

While armed separatists have been restricting schools from operating in the Anglophone regions, teachers who lived on the functioning of schools to survive, have been moving to towns like Douala, Bafoussam and Bamenda, for employment.

The government's representative at the Bamenda meeting, said structures have been put in place, and it is left for teachers to do their work. He encouraged proprietors to open their schools and government will support them with teachers on the condition that their doors are open for the 2019/2020 academic year.

 

      

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