Anxiety Mounts For School Resumption

Life and business activities go on normally in the city of Bamenda.

As members of the ad hoc committee ended deliberations in Bamenda on Tuesday December 27, 2016, with cabinet ministers already back to work in Yaounde, anxiety is mounting in the city for schools to resume. Parents, education stakeholders and students have expressed the wish for lasting solutions to be found for effective classes to recommence early January.

The city of Bamenda is bustling with its normal commercial activities as security forces are stationed in major road junctions of the North West Regional capital. Even though parents and students expressed the desire to see schools reopen their doors, their greatest expectation is for both parties to dialogue for a consensus. Parents however stated that without dialogue and solutions proffered, they will hold back their kids for the fear of the unknown.

Parents, who spoke to CT, regretted the unfortunate situation and do not even want to imagine a ...