By TALLA AGHAA CHRISTOPHER
All roads will be leading to Kumba, Chief town of Meme Division on Wednesday, August 28, 2019, when militants of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, CPDM, party storm the town to launch their own back-to-school campaign. The SUN gathered that the main point on the agenda will be centered on intensive campaign for an effective back-to- school in the Division, led by the President of the Meme CPDM Divisional committee, Hon Chief Justice Benjamin Itoe Mutanga. Though The SUN cannot authoritatively confirm whether the caravan will be bringing didactic materials and school needs to be distributed to school going children and school officials like what have been done by other bigwigs in other Divisions in North West and South West Regions, one thing is certain that the ‘rendezvous’ that will take place at the Kumba City Council auditorium will surely put smiles on the faces of the children that will be invited to the event.
The SUN gathered that in prelude to the coming of the Meme CPDM back-to-school campaign caravan, a delegation of Meme elites paid a courtesy visit at the STAR Building in Yaounde, where the Prime Minister, Head of Government, Chief Dr Joseph Dion Ngute urged them to make sure that back-to-school in Meme Division be a reality come Monday, September 2, 2019 across the Division.
Though the CPDM back-to-school campaign caravan is coming just on the eve of school resumption, a cross section of parents, most of them Internally Displaced Persons and die-heart sympathizers of the CPDM, who are eager to see their children benefit from the largess of the CPDM elites have hinted that it’s better late than never.
It should be recalled that Meme Division is made up of five sub divisions; Mbonge, Konye, Kumba I, Kumba II and Kumba III with an estimate of about 400 primary and Nursery schools and 200 colleges. However, for the past three years, schools in these areas have been grounded with just a handful of schools in Kumba Urban struggling amidst security challenges with less than 700 students in total.