NW/SW: Allow Children Access Standard Education!

School bells started ringing across the country on September 9, 2024 for the 2024-2025 academic year. The back-to-school euphoria has been heightening among students and pupils who are reuniting with their peers after over three months of recess. Stories of how the holidays fared have no doubt been animating the first days in school even as the learners and teachers roll out their plans for a successful academic year. This is interesting, to say the least! 
While this festive and expectative atmosphere has been perceptible in the eight other regions of the country, the situation in the North West and South West Regions remains disquieting. The raging bestial crisis, wherein education has been taken hostage for close to eight years now, is not showing signs of abating. The idiotic “ghost town” phenomenon which paralysis life and livelihoods on Mondays, was, as has been the case, extended for weeks with schools resumption. This has been disrupting effective teaching and learning even in green zones. As such, no school official would clearly make a situational analysis of his institution on this first days of back-to-school in the two restive regions, be it in terms of students’/pupils’ attendance or even the teaching staff. The number would only grow or reduce with time, depending on the nature of threats that have been the weapon of the lawless perpetrators of the mayhem.
In fact, education in the two dominantly English-speaking regions of the country has been a nightmare ever since ruffians hijacked the 2016 legitimate claims of teachers and common law lawyers to shamelessly wreak havoc on innocent population. School children and teachers have been killed, schools infrastructure vandalized and a reign of terror instituted. Too bad!
Parents and students who had the means, long relocated to safer regions and education, which was incidentally a rare industry in the regions, reduced to hide to seek game. Teachers and students who could brave the odds disguised and went to school, to teach and learn under fear. Within the circles of the ruthless school-boycott promoters, there is even confusion. While some give their own imaginary dates for their own schools reopening, others preach the opening of community schools at the detriment of government institutions. Absurd how people who have neither a country, a school nor curricula could talk of when schools resume. 
They have nothing to pass on to the youngsters, except barbarism. All they know is how to hold a gun, shoot or frighten the helpless population and make away with their hard-earned money or property. There is no future in all of these. Children must be rescued from the mess that has pushed some into deviances of all sorts and retarded the growth of many others. There is no better way of marginalising a people than depriving their youth of education. Even masterminds of the school confusion in the North West and South West Regions who are based abroad understand perfectly well that education is crucial for a child’s personal and professional development, well-being, and overall quality of life. This explains why they would brandish pictures and videos of their children graduating from prestigious schools abroad while fooling others back home to sacrifice that of their children for unrealistic claims. 
Children in the North West and South West Regions, like others elsewhere in the country, must be allowed to access standard education where republican values are taught. This is government-authorised institutions. Schools where the respect of national emblems (flag, anthem et al) is a rule. Schools with clearly-defined curricula where promotion from one level to the other is regulated and where certificates obtained are recognised all over. The gangsters hiding abroad and stopping others from going to school here graduated from schools in the country before going abroad. Anyone who doubts their evil intentions should therefore ask why they are cutting the bridge after crossing the river. Why they are denying education for others back home and spending millions for their offsprings to acquire same out there. This is pure oppression on a helpless people, else, what name can be given to the rather lingering ill?
Education has been sacrificed for too long. Eight years and counting is disastrous for the future of the youngsters and by extension the country. There should be an end to this life and livelihood destroyer for, a country without an educated youth, has no today and tomorrow. 
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