PUTTING ON OF UNIFORMS IN Schools A MUST IN MEME
Meme DO Orders The Putting On Of Uniforms Schools
For about five years now and counting, functional schools in Southern Cameroons have been accomadating students and pupils without the official school uniforms, but with assorted wears. But for some few schools in colonial government residential areas, all other schools don't wear official school uniforms. It has been an acceptable new normal as a result of the arm conflict in Southern Cameroons. Students don't want to be identified for fear of the unknown.If schools have been going on smoothly with students dressed assortedly, why is colonial DO, Chamberlain Ntou'ou ordering the wearing of school uniforms now?
Meme’s colonial Divisional officer Chamberlain Ntou’ou Ndong instructs departmental delegates of Basic Education, Secondary Education, as well as the heads of vocational schools to enforce the putting on of uniforms by students. In a letter dated 5 September, the colonial DO instructed these officials to refer to the heads of schools so that they only let in “students in school uniform“. “A grace period is granted from 5 to 20 September 2022,” said the colonial administrative authority, for whom this measure aims to avoid criminals in schools in the Meme Division . The colonial DO does not however specify how the absence of uniforms contributes to insecurity in schools. Since the genesis of the Anglophone crisis in late 2016, schools have been regular targets of attacks by separatist militias.
In October 2020, a group of assailants attacked the Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy, killing eight students. And in February this year, Ambazonia Restoration Forces (ARF) militiamen claimed responsibility for an attack on the Queen of the Rosary College Okoyong in Mamfe, without causing any casualties.
