The Mayor of Mindourou Council also Section President for Upper Nyong Centre talks of the council’s contribution to foster education.
L’Action: In what way is the council contributing in fostering the education of young Cameroonians?
Zengle Ntouh Richard: We are actually doing a lot in this regard. We have built and equipped all the nursery and primary and schools of the subdivision. These schools have been equipped with benches. We also distribute the little didactic material that comes in from the ministry and to that we add a consignment from the council and this permits teachers to have the necessary materials for the whole year. We have also recruited 28 teachers who are paid by the council without which many schools will not have teachers given that some only have one-the head teacher to teach all the classes. In one of our meetings before schools resumed, we asked head teachers and presidents of parent-teachers associations to in turn support us by being devoted and collaborating with others for the smooth running of these schools.
Paul Biya envisions an emergent nation by 2035. Is your contribution in the education sector fall within this framework?
The emergence that we are gunning for will come through youths who have received a solid education. That we are doing all in our power to lay that foundation without which we cannot boast of the future being bright for them. That is why at the level of the councils, we are relenting no efforts in ameliorating conditions of learning. Not only do we pay teachers from the council’s coffers, we equally go the extra mile of sponsoring the training of teachers in Teacher Training College in Abong Mbang upon completion of their studies they are recruited and deployed by the council. All these efforts are in a bid to guarantee what we have codenamed “Education Emergence”.
Claudette CHIN
