‘See to it that schools resume’ – SW governor tells elected officials

SW governor Bernard Okalia Bilai has called on elected officials of the Region to ensure that schools resume this September.

Bilai was speaking at a meeting with elected officials from the South West on September 4 when he told the “Members of parliament should go back, the regional councillors must go back to their various constituencies and the mayor’s with the councilors should mobilize”.
He added that:
“We cannot have the ambitions we have for our country without education”.
Governor Bilai also said that he was also going to support the initiative by going to grassroots levels with the elected officials
He went on to tell the officials to shun fear from separatists who have enforced school boycotts for the past 7 years, stating: “If you cannot face them, they will deal with you. But if you tell them that we know you, we know your family members, they will feel threatened”.
In 2017 at the dawn of the Anglophone Crisis, Okalia Bilai was one of the fiercest critics of church leaders who petitioned the government to solve the Anglophone Crisis. The church leaders at the time issued a joint communique stating that their schools would remain closed until government solved the crisis