The Teachers’ Trade Unions in the North West and South West Regions have condemned atrocities recently committed in the North West and South West Regions while equally calling for effective school resumption in the in the two regions next month.
The Cameroon Teachers’ Trade Union, CATTU, Teachers’ Association of Cameroon, TAC, the Presbyterian Education Authority Teachers’ Trade Union, PEATTU, Catholic Education Writer Trade Union, CEWOTU and the Baptist Teachers’ Trade Union, BATTUC in a statement released at the weekend, all raised their voices against the atrocities in the North West and South West Regions.
Bamenda, has particularly been tensed this past week following the killing of a policeman; an act the Minister of Communication says was committed by two men who were carrying firearms. This has since prompted security and defence forces to launch a manhunt to track down the perpetrators of the crimes.
The Cameroon Teachers’ Trade Union, CATTU, Teachers’ Association of Cameroon, TAC, the Presbyterian Education Authority Teachers’ Trade Union, PEATTU, Catholic Education Writer Trade Union, CEWOTU and the Baptist Teachers’ Trade Union, BATTUC in a statement released at the weekend, all raised their voices against the atrocities in the North West and South West Regions.
Bamenda, has particularly been tensed this past week following the killing of a policeman; an act the Minister of Communication says was committed by two men who were carrying firearms. This has since prompted security and defence forces to launch a manhunt to track down the perpetrators of the crimes.
The teachers thumbed up to government for initiating dialogue and expressed the wish to see this continue by exploring “ways of reaching out to the parties in the ongoing conflict and of addressing the grievances that provoked the crisis in the first place.”
Concerning the new school year, they called on all those hindering students and teachers from going to school to desist from these acts and stressed school boycotts can never be the ultimate solution.
“(We call on ) all those standing in the way to give peace a chance and allow deprived, nay, sacrificed children return to school, and their teachers to resume their functions in an atmosphere of peace and security, given that education is the springboard for any form of development and because school boycott as a grievance-expressing measure cannot go on ad infinitum,” they said.
