Teachers’ Strike : NW Governor Strategises Against Spill Over

North West Governor, Adolphe Lele Lafrique on March 22, 2022 sized-up the social climate in the region in the face of the ongoing nation-wide strike action called by teachers. It was during a stakeholders’ session summoned to prevent the strike from gliding into the North West Region. It was against this backdrop that the Governor lamented that children within the region have already lost so much within the past five years due to the socio-political crisis. “Any strike action will have a devastating effect on the children’s school year”, he advised.
The meeting was an occasion for education stakeholders to present a series of heart-touching problems faced by teachers of the North West Region in particular and Cameroon as a whole. It emerged from presentations that  the region is riddled with problems of  frequent kidnapping of teachers and learners, insecurity on school campuses, insufficient teachers in some schools, inadequate classrooms, teachers’ salaries suspension, hierarchy’s decision stopping principals from collecting  PTA fees. Participants were unanimous that the problems in addition to those already tabled by the striking teachers constitute a looming danger in the horizon if not taken care of.
The way forward featured decisions that the authorities concerned with the implementation of the Head of State’s decisions in resolving the teachers’ problems should fast tract the process while respecting prescribed deadlines. With regard to the insecurity problems in some schools within Mezam Division, the Governor gave firm instructions to the SDO for Mezam, Emile Mooh to, within the shortest possible time, convene a security meeting with divisional stakeholders in a bid to redress the situation. Principals of schools with adequate teachers and classrooms were urged to forward their complaints to the Regional Delegates of Secondary ...