Cameroon: Anglophone Teachers Express another Big Disgruntlement to PM Yang

Teachers of the English sub-system of education acting under the umbrella of All Anglophone Teacher Trade Union, have issued a strong missive to Prime Minister Philemon Yang on what they have described as “destruction” of the GCE Board.

According to reports, this compelling complaint is tabled over three months after the trade unionists sounded the first alarm to the head of government over the same issue.

Members of Cameroon Teachers Trade Union, CATTU, Presbyterian Education Authority Teachers’ Trade Union, PEATTU, Baptist Teachers’ Trade Union of Cameroon, BATTU, Teachers’ Association of Cameroon, TAC and Catholic Education Workers Teachers’ Trade Union, CEWOTTU, have all highlighted need for the issue to be treated as a matter of urgency this time around.

According to sources, they have all expressed their rage against appointments into the Cameroon General Certificate of Examination (CGCE) board, which appointments they say are carried out in violation of the statutes of the board.

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TCR learnt that the second memorandum was inspired by the recent appointment of Deputy Registrar in charge of Technical Affairs, after the first letter was sent, describing it as an insult.

They also frowned at the organization of GCE examinations saying it is in total violation of the norms of the Board, urging the PM to intervene before it is too late.

The Memo partially reads, “We were shocked that a circular signed by the erstwhile Minister of Secondary Education No. 346/18/MINESEC/SG on February 9, 2018, instructed Regional Delegates in the North West and South West Regions to designate teacher and parent representatives to the Cameroon GCE Board Council. Despite our recent warning against administrative influence peddling, another move from all indication, ultra vires and a display of defiant administrative high handedness, was taken. The fact that this administrative note studiously avoids the word “elect” is particularly noxiously ominous; this probably explains why the designation, especially in the Northwest, took the form of hurried, stealthy, exclusive business, with a tailored electoral college. These trade Unions and the Union of Parents and Teachers Association UPTA, clearly constitute very important teacher and parent representatives, were studiously sidelined,” the teachers said.

The letter is also coming after a former Registrar at the Board warned against such practices at the Board saying that it could lead to a doom.

 By LVV