By NDUMBE BELL GASTON
The Minister of secondary Education has decried the malpractice of some digital service providers for keeping monies transferred through them, for over 48 hours. The pronouncement was made recently in Douala in the presence of the regional Delegates of the South West, North West, Littoral, the Secretary of State of Secondary Education and other close collaborators, in a fact-finding, evaluation and training session to ensure that present and future instructions, rules and regulations, must be implemented to the letter with precision and efficiency.
In her second-coming after the death of a student of Government Bilingual High School, Deido, the Minister of Secondary Education, Professor Nalova Lyonga visited the school as a gesture to send a message that she was also in Douala to evaluate the security situation in all schools. In every school that was in her itinerary, she declared that she would go to the extent, if need be, of firing any administrative official(s) who fail to uphold security concerns in their schools as priority.
As started, one of the preoccupations in this session was the brainstorming of all challenges that were identified to exist between digital payment service operators and their users. In the presence of some of them, such as Express Union, MTN, Camtel, Orange and some banks like UBA involved in the process, some of these partners were frowned at, for not sending their money transfers in time to the main bank known to be Afriland First Bank. For this and other difficulties, some decisions arrived last Wednesday, September 11, were that, henceforth, there will be quarterly audit reports of the digital operators, “so that the public can know what is happening”, the Minister stated.
Some amendments that were arrived at during a working session caused a change of position. Professor Nalova Lyonga declared “A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is to be signed in the weeks ahead to include what has been amended and to annul the old.”
The visit also took the Minister of Secondary Education and her entourage to Government Technical High School Koumassi and G.T.H. S. Bassa. It was an alarming discovery that the school at Bassa had been operational without an existing laboratory for 15 good years while the authorities always sent fake reports to Yaounde.
One of professor Lyonga’s capital concerns which she instructed was the admission of all the displaced students from the troubled North West and South West regions that she classified as irrevocable.