PEATTU's in a release said that teachers of secondary schools have gone for seven months without salaries, while those of primary schools have been unpaid for close to 32 months.
The release signed by PEATTU's president, Afu Stephens expressed dissatisfaction over the church's management of its activities, citing the case of a protocol agreement signed between teachers and the church as biased. They accused the employer of implementing only those which favours him and not the employees.
" Is it not witchcraft of the highest degree to hear the church hierarchy saying that there is money to pay PEA workers and still go ahead to ask Christians to contribute money to assist teachers, which the committed Christians always responded to the plea with very huge contributions, yet, there is no account of that money given anywhere?", he questioned.
They also decried poor working conditions of the workers, which they likened to slavery.
In an interview according to Cameroon-Info.net, the Education Secretary for Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, Njie Kale Samuel said they were ready to start school but the PCC was highly affected by the crisis and reaffirmed that their teachers were not paid.
"Our schools in the private sector are highly affected. As concerns school reopening this year, ask government officials who are supposed to create an enabling environment. 80% of our schools are paralysed and our teachers have gone for one year without salaries but the state teachers have their money, so we are in deep trouble. You should ask state officials what they are doing to enable a safe ground for school resumption”, stated the education secretary.
He called on government to create an enabling environment for schools to start.
“ The private sector is heavily affected. Some of our schools were burnt, our teachers were attacked, we lost one teacher in CPC Bali who was shot on the 15th of September, about 80 of our students and principal were kidnapped in Nkwen last year”, he lamented.
Out of 17 schools in the North West, the PCC operated only 3, and in the South West out of 12 schools , they had only 3 secondary schools. Of some 200 primary schools, only about 20 operated.
SOURCE: Cameroon-Info.net
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