TEACHERS BEGGED NOT TO STRIKE

The Colonial Minister Of Secondary Education Begs Teachers

It is evident that the colonial government of La Republique du Cameroun is failing in her responsibility to fulfill the engagement with teachers. To compel this colonial government to pay their dues, teachers announced a planned strike action. Nothing as in nothing can come out of the colonial regime of Paul Biya without the beneficiary fighting for it. Without pressure, that which is normal with other governments can not be done by the colonial Biya's regime. Why must there be strike action for the colonial government of Paul Biya to take appropriate actions?

A letter dated 19 August, signed by the colonial Minister of Secondary Education and addressed to all leaders of teachers’ unions has been revealed. In the letter, the colonial government, through the in house slave Nalova Lyonga, is trying to defuse a movement that could compromise the next school year scheduled for 5 September. On August 15, the movements of secondary school teachers (OTS) and primary school teachers (OTA) as well as the Union of Cameroonian Teachers for Africa signed a joint letter of “notice of strike for the start of the school year“. The letter was addressed to the in house slave Prime Minister and in house slave Minister of Secondary Education.

During a consultation meeting of August 24, in house slave Minister Nalova Lyonga pleads the educational actors gives time to the colonial government to settle their demands while they occupy their respective functions as schools resume. The trade union members were skeptical about halting the planned strike action, but reluctantly agreed on postponing the strike on a condition that the colonial government acts immediately in making living conditions better for them. Further details were not unveiled to the press. In this document, the signatories announced that if nothing is done to resolve the teachers’ demands, “the strike will begin with the boycott of the start of the 2022/2023 school year, continue with the boycott of the first term General Assembly and continue with the ‘dead chalk’ operation”. OTS, OTA, and Seca list 28 grievances in their letter. These include the payment of all the arrears due to teachers, the pure and simple abolition of the 2/3 and 1/3 system in pay advances, the automation of financial effects and the revision of the special status of teachers.

These demands were already contained in the reasons for the strike launched by OTS last January. After several consultations, the colonial government made some commitments. But according to the teachers, it has not respected them all. Hence this new strike. When you examine the situation in the two Cameroons as we speak, you won't agree any less with us, that the economic sabotage by the Ambazonian Restoration Forces is bringing big wins for the nation of Ambazonia. While the colonial administration is struggling to ensure normalcy, denying the effects of the war, the Interim Government is drafting County by County. A lot is happening and you sure want to be a part and to see the next level as we take Ngoketunjia for the draft this weekend.