Stephen Ujambeng, CPDM Section President for Momo IV in Ngie has proposed that concerted efforts be made to ensure that all five subdivisions in Momo benefit from regional Assembly’s support to Secondary schools.
This is as a measure to wade off the devastative effects of the crisis on the educational system in the division and particularly in three of the five subdivisions that are yet to benefit.
He was speaking in Yaounde recently during a gathering of Momo West people chaired by Felix Atabum divisional delegate of secondary education for Momo division. They came together after a close examination of the effects of poor school attendance, failure of school and resumption on time by children in the area due to threats from the separatists. Stephen Ujambeng who doubles as section president and divisional representative of Momo to the North West Regional Assembly has observed that of the five Subdivisions in Momo only two, Mbengwi and Batibo have benefited from the budget of the decentralized organs in the domain of secondary education. Ngie, Njikwa and Widikum have not been privileged to enjoy this support that is supposed to come to the entire division reason being that statistics show that schools are not going on in these three sub divisions. It is a preoccupying situation which the elite of these three sub divisions are working on correcting so as to ensure that the sub divisions receive the necessary support to rebuild their educational infrastructures for the provision of quality education to children in all safety. They are on a remobilisation move to send all children in the three sub divisions to school this academic year. According to Stephen Ujambeng, “I propose that we centralise all the existing secondary schools in places where security is guaranteed, apportion some areas of these schools where the teachers and principals can be sure of their safety as they go about their work”, he said. this will go a long way to encourage the economy of these sub divisions. He regrets that the three sub divisions have lost in the regional assembly for the past four years and encouraged them to work with the village development associations to make sure they register children for a start to show prove that schools are going on effectively if they must benefit from the said support. Considering that only Mbengwi and Batibo have benefited this far, the last running budget for secondary schools in Momo should be centred on Njikwa, Ngie and Widikum for equitability.
Irene AWENEG
