Situation In NW, SW : Minister Mbayu Encourages Effective Back-to-school

The Minister Delegate to the Minister of External Relations in charge of Relations with the Commonwealth, Felix Mbayu, on Saturday August 17, 2019 in Bamenda organised a back-to – school event during which he urged both parents and students to take education seriously. The event which held at the Old Town neighbourhood in Bamenda brought together about 1,600 kids whom the Minister spoke with and handed washing soap and cooking oil to the parents of the children who showed up. While noting that education is a universal human rights, Minister Mbayu advised parents not to jeopardise the future of their children by keeping them away from the classrooms. “As you see these children, if they do not go to school, what will become of them,” he wondered. The Minister decried the increasing rate of teenage pregnancies and prayed the parents to preach school resumption to their children. “Today, we have children who give birth at 15 years. Young children with talents that need to be developed are in the bushes, while some are going wayward. Is this what we want from our children,”

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