BY WAMBO EMMANUEL IN NDU
Meeting for the first time with their newly installed Divisional Officer D.O, for Ndu sub division to strategize measures for effective school take-off of the 2017/2018 in the subdivision, the custodians of tradition, taking into consideration the long schools boycott by the pupils and students and the respect of calls for ghost towns, promised D.O Adamou Shaibuh Ibrahim, that they will use traditional rites to force kids back to schools and stop the respect of ghost towns in other to have life return to normalcy in the subdivision.
The traditional as well as religious authorities unanimously accepted that, school resumption is non negotiable and promised to spearhead the implemention of resolutions taken in Nkambe and Ndu during the Fons meeting in Sehn village.
Some of the fons declared that they have personally taken children to school just to prove to the population that fear should not defeat effective school resumption in Ndu.
Politics, they pointed out, must be separated from the right of the children to acquire an education. “The security officers around us are because of the threats accentuated by the unknown forces and they are there to protect our children”, The Fons told the population.
The newly installed Divisional officer D.O for Ndu, Adamou Shaibuh Ibrahim, announced that the issue at stake is the failure of school resumption for 2017/2018 school year despite the genuine protest of the lawyers and teachers union, who called-off the strike after government intervention in resolving lawyers’ and teachers’ grievances. The D.O. said teachers are in school waiting for pupils/students to teach.
According to the D.O., education is an inalienable right of children all over the world . He equally highlighted that despite the crisis, children should still go to school.
Adamou Shaibuh Ibrahim appreciated the entire population of the division particularly the Mayor, the Fons, the clergies and the forces of law and order for their collaboration since his appointment and installation. Adding that the division is large and endowed with resources which make it the economic capital of the Donga-Mantung division.
Speaker after speaker, during the administrative meeting, advocated for effective school take-off.
Even though the meeting was to the satisfaction of the D.O and other stakeholders, A clergyman who spoke to The SUN said healing needs to be done to reconcile the people and bring normalcy to the land . He pleaded that before a successful school take-off and normalcy in Ndu subdivision, an ecumenical service be conducted so that the evil spirits be destroyed.