Teachers/Lawyers strike which has recently turned into civil disobedience may soon degenerate to an uncontrollable level

The Teachers/Lawyers strike which started in November last year and gradually turned in to civil disobedience in the two Anglophone regions of Cameroon is seen by many as the becoming more complicated as the days go by.

According to Dr. Ndi Richard Tanto, Member of EITI and Director of Ecumenical Service for Peace Yaounde, the conflict has stayed way too long without proper resolution and as a result, stakeholders are now dwelling on side issues which have emanated from the conflict before coming to the problem itself.

“Today, questions that have to do with the preconditions for dialogue to hold which preoccupies many are all secondary things that do not have any direct relevance to what brought about this conflict. We are now focusing on the side issues because we allowed it for too long and other things are spreading out of the original problem. Today we have a national crisis instead of a Teachers/Lawyers’ crisis because the original crisis was not given attention on time. The crisis has slowly become complicated and it is going to require extra strategies and efforts from the government to properly address it” says Dr. Ndi.

Many say, as the days pass by without stakeholders having any meaningful dialogue, the problem may keep degenerating to levels which may soon become disastrous.