OTS: Administrative authorities sleepless as death chalk operation gains ground
The “death chalk” protest launched at the start of the 2023-2024 academic year by the OTS and OTA movements has gained ground in the West Region. The operation that was respected by some schools in the Menoua and Nde divisions on week 1, is having a contagious effect on others in the Mifi division at the start of week 3.
Teachers in some schools in the Mifi like GBHS Bafoussam, GBHS Bafoussam Rural, GHS Batoukop, GTHS Canada, and GHS Baleng, on Monday, September 18, 2023, respected calls for no teaching by the movement’s leaders. The teachers on the first day of the third week could be spotted during class hours, gathered on school campuses holding placards.
” solidarity to colleagues of the education system who passed away without salaries”
“When a child is continuously being caned on his right, he ends up being heartless”
“OTS 2, special status”
The above are some of the messages that could be read on the placards held by teachers.
The situation prompted an immediate reaction from Governor Awa Fonka Augustine who was obliged to make sudden visits in some schools alongside the regional delegate of secondary education, François Ngabnya.
Their stopover at GBHS Bafoussam was aimed at convincing teachers so that they resume lessons. This reaction comes a week after the Governor called on the Senior Divisional Officers for Menoua and Nde divisions to take necessary and urgent measures to put an end to early strike action in their administrative zones.
The measures according to the Governor, were to prevent the strike from contaminating other divisions and disrupting the new school year. A call that now seems to instead have a boomerang effect.
