✓The case of Noela Ika
Beh, a teachers in Wum and teachers of the two English speaking Regions of
Anglophone Cameroon are a serious call
for concern and alarm.
What
started as a pacific strike actions organized by teachers and lawyers on the 6th
of October 2016, to gain identity and dignity unfortunately or fortunately has
grown out of proportion to a full scale war entering it’s eight years putting
the same parties concerned victims of their orchestrations.
Hijacked
by separatist fighters and Republican forces, who have taken upon it as a
theatre or center for their cross fire exchanges.
Eight
years down the roll as the crisis deepens and grow in Propensity, 54% of
schools remain closed according to UN security reports with over a thousand
teachers targeted and over five hundred kidnapped, and a hundred murdered in
cold blood.
As
we report, a cross section of internally displaced persons over a 100,000 are mostly
students, teachers, lawyers and families in areas declared red zones habited by
separatist fighters and centers of the war arsenal.
North
West where school reopening is trying to pick up, teachers of late in their
numbers are as we report a subject to
the brutal attacks from the regime in question who want them to be in school
daily mindful of the security threats and challenges from the separatists
fighters who will not want to see a class door open talk less of children in
school attire before accommodating the fact that teachers should go about their
pedagogic activities.
Which
is a gross abuse to the fundamental rights of teachers and their students to
education.
In a
lawless situation who cares? Most especially as the gang has resorted to kidnapping
teachers who are violating their school injunction order for money.
The
case of some Menchum teachers early last October is very much in the news where
many teachers were not only picked up by separatist forces but by military to
regain duty post brutally and with horrendous threats.
The
case of Noela Ika a teacher from Wum and colleagues from our sources, reflects
and mirror a beater, a brutal and a traumatic experience of what teachers go
through in the English speaking part of Cameroon in the name of teaching from both
Republican and separatist forces.
As a
center of attention and attraction, teachers have remained a major source of
target daily given that, if schools starts fully all will come back to normalcy
and the nationhood liberation fighters are trying to restore will die a natural
death after all the wasted years.
True
to what we are saying in this special report, the act of both forces has caused
many teachers to be kidnapped, some killed and most on the run for dear lives.
While some are in detention camps either because they have absconded from
school activities or parties to the separatist campaign.
This calls for international attention as the alarming rate of human social right violation is becoming unbearable.
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