CHRDA takes Cameroon and Separatist activist to task, call for school resumption in the Anglophone Regions of Cameroon.
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It is either we redefined the history and our children remembered us and or we worsen the existed one and our children blame us tomorrow. The worry that should be running in the veins of every Southern Cameroonian at this moment should be the faith of the next generation because our forefathers defined our own faith long ago and we need to shape the future taking into consideration everyone’s betterment. In every society, they exist the security forces and at the same time there are politicians, children, women youths and to name the few. These people have their roles to play in building a sustainable and justified space within that society. it is worthy to note that only ideas can build a society we deserve and these ideas can only be achieve through education (either formal or informal). Yes, there is still war ongoing in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon declared against the people by the government. Yes, to be alive is first before any other fundamental right, in a war zone you need to survive before you can do anything pertaining to other fundamental rights.
The Societal Issues and Legality is worried if this revolution will continue like for ten years. And if our children remuained home for that ten years, what will be the faith of our children’s future. Let us support the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (www.chrda.org) in the back to school campaign and let the struggle for freedom and the quest for justice continue while our children go back to school. It is imperative to note that if schools remain closed for years, most of our children will be fed with the very system of education that we are revolting against today, hence depreciating our values to zero level even when there will be justice and freedom. The Societal Issues and Legality can now from feasibility studies state that thousands of our children are in the other French Regions of Cameroon being fed academically with the French system of education we claimed to be revolting against.
Education is the second industry of our region after agriculture and it has been down for three years. Yes, the teachers use the school boycott as a means to achieve the main goal of separating and maintaining the Anglo-Saxon system of education from being corrupted by the majority French system of education, they did that thinking the government could be caring and feared the endangering of the future our children, but the government did not care. The issue of not going to school as to force the government of Cameroon response to their plight ended up in a fiasco because that did not change the authority’s mindset of the use of force.
It is better we allowed our children to go back to school today while the struggle continue than to leave them at home because we need to build a strong society for tomorrow’s sake.
“Our children deserve a better future. That future can only be guaranteed through education and not through the guns. Guns destroy our society, education builds the society. Give our children education” quoted from CHRDA’s Facebook page
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” Nelson Mandela once said.
Berinyuy Cajetan is the founder and publisher of Human Rights and Legal Research Centre (HRLRC) since 2017. He has intensive experience in strategic communications for Civil Society Organizations, campaign and advocacy, and social issues. He has an intensive experiencing in human rights monitoring, documentation and reporting.
