Authorities of Private Higher Education Institution Clear the Air on Paramedical Training of Health Professionals

 

-Debunks False Social Media Campaign on the Cancellation of HND/BTS in Medical and Biomedical Science.

This was in an enlarged press conference organized by (ANOWEPHEI) the Association of North West Private Higher Education Institutions at the National Polytechnic Higher education institute’s conference hall on Wednesday the 28^th of August 2024 bringing together press Men and authorities of the said association to clear the air on the false social media articulations around the last resolutions of the interministerial meeting on the training of Paramedical personnel by certain institutes of higher education in Cameroon.

That HND/BTS medical and Biomedical Science Exams has been cancelled. Stating very clearly that none of such exams have been cancelled, that no authorized private higher education institution has been banned or suspended from the training and that HND/BTS Diplomas are valid nationally and internationally.

This clarification, the authorities of ANOWEPHEI sounded it loud and clear to media men and women in their last media outing while appealing to government in follow up to their last letter of August 22^nd 2024 addressed to MINESUP and MINSANTE that the parties should consider giving a period of grace of three years before implementing the resolutions of final press release number N0D13-255/MINESUP/MINSANTE of August 16^th, 2024 to permit private higher Education institutions to have time to reorganize themselves.

In the course of the  authority’s presentation, they called on level two and three students to resume classes with no fear of any interruptions.

Hear the vice President Rev. Njoya Basile, speaking to the press immediately after, “No HND or BTS exams have been cancelled or authorized private higher education institution banned or validity of Diplomas questioned, rather we are appealing to government for three years to adjust while asking our level two and three students to continue with classes as we sort out things with government”.

The special media outing by ANOWEPHEI it must be noted is provoked by the last Ministerial outing of 16^th August 2024 in Yaounde to bring some sanity in the training and recruitment of Paramedical professionals in Cameroon which has sparked a lot of debate and the circulation of false information around social media circles.

ANOWEPHEI it must be noted, is a non-profit making, apolitical and democratic association created since 2017, dedicated to improving quality higher education and social services,

 

Tubah Council Empowers Over 220 Youth Recruits this Summer Holidays

✓Challenged them at the end of Exercise to Champion crusade against Waste management in their various communities, to be Civic and law abiding.

This was the take home message issued to a battery of youths cum student intakes recruited by Tubah Council this year 2024 for voluntary holidays job services to the council.

Issued by the Mayor of Tubah Council Tanjong Martin on the 13^th of August 2024 at his plastic waste management and recycling site in Bambili where the youth recruits were assembled to end their holiday job activities with Tubah Council.

A Council that has since taken upon herself as a special routine to gather youths during long summer holidays and assign them to clean their communities and major squares around to earn a stipend that will assist in completing their school fees or back to school preparations.

The essence according to Tubah Council is to first get the holiday recruits engaged and committed during holidays to voluntary community services and activities.

This year’s intake were about 220 youths cum students selected from Tubah administrative head quarter and the four villages that make up Tubah (Bambui, Bambili, Kedjom Keku and Kedjom Ketingoh).

They were assigned for the first week exercise, to clean their various palaces and vicinities, for the second week, send to clean major squares, the third assigned to clean major catchment areas and plant trees around the municipality and for the last week, they were drilled on proper waste management and recycling to produce compose manure  and hard pavement bricks.

This activity or exercise in the north shell, fall within Council and government plan to occupy, educate and empower youths during holidays.

According to the Mayor of Tubah, it is always a unique opportunity to bring youths and students during long summer holidays to work for the collective development of their council area.

Speaking on the occasion to the holiday makers and the Press, the Mayor of Tubah called on all to be civic, responsible, Ambassadors of peace and to champion the crusade on waste management and recycling which is what has earned him National and international awards as Cameroon’s best mayor at the forefront of community development and environmental protection.

The Mayor of Tubah Council Tanjong Martin, it must be noted is a bulldozer who has since committed his stay in office to community service and development through people centered activities, upholding the “The clean city Initiative and Waste is Wealth Campaign”

Cameroon Government Launch Fresh Crack Down on Teachers Alleged To be Financing Deepening Anglophone Liberation War

 

✓The Case of Delphine Echou is one amongst many that has provoked general out cry and uproar in Bamenda

There has been general out cry and uproar all over the North West Region, since Cameroon government signed fresh warrants after teachers in Bamenda who have vacated duty posts in respect to separatists threats and calls to boycott schools and teaching.

On the motives that most teachers have left their duty posts, grounded schools in solidarity with secessionists calls, going about their private businesses and fueling the revolution at the other end.

This decision according to government is in follow up of the Minister of secondary education Dr Nalova Lyonga's  call early this year asking government to fish out teachers who have absconded duty posts for fear of separatists attacks.

This according to them will serve as a repressive and a counter offensive measure to cause many teachers who have left duty posts to regain their class rooms.

 The suspension of most teachers salaries from the English speaking part of the country hit by the deepening liberation war has been counter productive and has played no reasonable role to curb or arrest the situation.

Rather it has caused many disgruntled teachers to make part with their teaching jobs and to look for safe grounds to source for a better living in and out of the country.

Against this backdrop fresh warrants have been signed after principals and teachers who have left duty post for fear of their lives and that of family members.

The liberation war in Anglophone Cameroon as we report has taken a different phase where teachers are now victims of circumstance. Accused of aligning with separatists force on the one hand and accused by separatist forces on the other hand for killing the revolution by going to schools and teaching.

It must be noted that grounding schools for over six years in these English speaking part of the country was with the intention to close schools, render government ungovernable and cause government to succumb to secessionist calls by armed groups.

Unfortunately government has stood their grounds, choosing the military option and intimidation.

The crack down operations intensified this time has met with general out cry as many of the teachers after are those who have been kidnapped, raped, their houses burnt and family members killed all because they are subjected by government to teach in areas infested by separatists forces.

The case of Madame Delphine Echou a teacher at GTC Ntaturu who narrowly escaped death with to of his colleagues killed on the spot (Shelvert and Brian) in school on the 5^th of September 2017 is a glaring example of teachers wanted by government  for alleged fueling of the revolution even after she was kidnapped and tortured to the point of death.

Teaching today in Anglophone Cameroon it must be noted is regarded as hell and not as a noble profession.

Reacting to the situation of late, civil society organizations and human rights organizations have taken on it and are crusading against the crack down and calling for the release of those abducted in the name of not teaching to be released.

Making worst of the situation, the military has extended to wanton and out right arrest of family members of the said teachers thus rendering the whole situation chaotic and full of disorder.

The genesis of all what has muffed up to this extend, this reporter must emphasize was the teachers and lawyer’s strike of October 2016 calling on government to review their working situation and from no where, secessionists came up and hijacked the crisis.

Sad to report, the crisis, better still war, has become  irrevocable and is growing in propensity daily.