Cameroon Higher Education: Bamenda University (UBa) lecturers threaten strike action

They have given government 10 days to respond to their plight

Some lectures of the University of Bamenda, Members of the Union of Teachers of Higher Education (SYNES) have threatened a strike action if the security challenges the face on their way to school within the context of the ongoing Anglophone crisis was not resolved. A handful of the lectures have been assaulted on the Bambui – Bambili stretch of road to Uba, many kidnapped at least one has lost his life.

Consequences of Anglophone crisis

In a release signed by the Uba SYNES president Prof. Michael Kpughe Lang, they shall stop lectures within ten days beginning 18 – 29 October. 2021, if a solution was not found to their worries. According to the lecturers in spite of their determination and resilience to keep on with lectures despite insecurity for close to 5 years now since the escalation of the Anglophone crisis the authorities have remained indifferent to their plight.

(See full release attached.)
for the sillonpanafricain.net
Mah Assi