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This is unavoidably a situation of placing the cart before the horses. How do we imagine a situation where children of school going age have to go back to class when among other realities, a majority of school infrastructure is in total ruins, their family houses including their belongs keep being roasted, their parents, siblings are targets of extra judicial killing, whole communities have literally been erased from the surface of the earth and consequently businesses bookshops among, have gone extinct, teachers at best have fled ,in prison or in their untimely graves.
Who really assumed that going back to school is a solution to the desolation in Anglophone Cameroon? Will the reopening of schools lead Amba boys to drop their guns?
Or will it teach the military the presumption of innocence of suspected persons? How come this campaign of return to school is so pleasing to some quarters that, they indulge in propounding the stance of imprisoned ‘terrorists’ like Mancho Bibixy and co?
If there were concordance in understanding, it will be easy to deduce that this evil penchant for pretense is still very rife among us, someone wants to show whoever falls that the situation has been normalized.
It is not at all true. The battle is still very bloody, the killing of a lieutenant in Ngomgham and the brutal retaliation on two unarmed, innocent and pleading sisters as well as the sinking of a military boat over River Manyu are glaring testimonies.
Our take is; we need schools very badly and more importantly, we deserve to stay alive.
Activate dialogue, attain a ceasefire let peace return. Schooling and other good things will just follow suit! Just like the frightening pitting of Akus and Muslims against Aghems, with the resultant butchering to dead of almost all the male villagers in Ketsa in Naikom in Wum, another scary mastermind is unfolding in Kumba with the bike riders being turned against their kin over a purported killing of one of them by Amba boys.
If someone really cares for this country and its citizens, then this dangerous game of make belief must stop