Manyu Division: Mayor Tabenchong Ashu donates didactics to leaners in Eshobi, Eyang Ntui villages.

The didactics including benches, textbooks, notebooks, pens, pencils, school bags among others, were distributed to learners in Eshobi and Eyang Ntui villages in the Mamfe Central Subdivision. 

They were handed the gifts Sunday September 8. Local authorities, teachers, community leaders witnessed the distributed of the school needs to the learners. 

Speaking to the press after the brief event, the representative of Mayor Tabenchong Ashu, said the gifts restate the mayor’s commitment to supporting education in the two areas.

Per the official, the kind gesture will enhance the academic success of the youngsters by notably bridging the gap created between them and formal education due to insecurity caused by the ongoing crisis in the English-speaking regions. 

Mayor’s envoy sounded upbeat the school needs will significantly contribute to easing the financial burden on parents. 

Pledge to do more for both villages 

Mayor Tabenchong Ashu has also pledged to carry out several other projects to further enhance smooth education in the Eshobi and Eyang Ntui villages.

He has promised to pay all part time teachers of the schools in order to ensure effective teaching and timely school resumption in the areas.

The mayor has called on parents, learners and community leaders to answer the school resumption calls positively and reassured the community that he will work in close collaboration with the local administration around the areas for teachers to be transferred to schools in the communities to facilitate the teaching-learning process.

The promises gave reassurances and provided immediately pathway towards the resolution of the issue of the shortage of teachers which pedagogues in the communities said had notably left the state primary school in the Eshobi village with one teacher and a headmaster. 

Mayor Tabenchong Ashu in a similar show of control, also importantly told the community leaders, parents and education officials in the areas to be at ease in terms of security. 

He reassured the population of the fact that the SDO of Manyu Division has taken adequate measures to ensure security of all schools. 

Stakeholders hail initiative, express gratitude 

Speaking in separate reactions after the donation, parents of the beneficiary pupils, community leaders and education officials in the two communities expressed deep gratitude to Mayor Tabenchong Ashu and his team for the gesture, describing it as timely.

The representative of the Chief of the Eshobi village noted that the gesture of the mayor restates the fact that the government has the community on the back of its mind.

He said the community will stop at nothing to shame the devil that has left the area in the dark in the last six to seven years in terms of education.

Community leaders, parents and young learners in the Eyang Ntui village made similar declarations, promising to, as highlighted through the cleaning of the campuses of the schools in the villages, embrace education in full gear from the first to final day of the new school year. 

Mayor Tabenchong Ashu the education ambassador

The recent donations in the Eshobi and Eyang Ntui is considered by observers, puts the mayor in the hall of fame of those supporting right to education across the crisis-hit North West and South West Regions. 

The gesture is among series of moves taken by the mayor to boost effective schooling and crusade peace and unity. 

This article was first published in The Guardian Post issue N0:3226 of Wednesday September 11, 2024