The Senior Divisional Officer, SDO for Bui, Theophile Nzeki, has urged the head teachers of Kumbo Central Subdivision to make good use of the ‘minimum package’ distributed to their schools for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Speaking in the Kumbo Council Hall on September 17, Nzeki congratulated the schools which scored excellent results in the First School Leaving Certificate Examination into general grammar school and technical colleges and urged them to continue to work harder while advising those schools which did not do well to redouble their efforts. He, however, warned the head teachers against any misuse of the minimum package as they will have to account for it.

The Mayor of the Kumbo Council, Donatus Njong Fonyuy, in his speech said the minimum package the Government sent this year was less than the one of last year. He told head teachers not to panic as the Council has augmented the minimum package for them. He lauded the brilliant results the schools in Kumbo Central Subdivision scored in the First School Leaving Certificate Examination and Common Entrance Examinations; adding that it made him a proud collaborator of the Basic Education family in Kumbo.

The Mayor revealed that a team dispatched to the field to evaluate the use of the minimum package in schools for 2013-2014 came back with good information of the good use of the materials given to the schools. He announced that the minimum package this year has gone to thirty two public schools and has augmented to a global total of FCFA 10m.

The private schools and government schools that scored 100% in the first leaving school leaving certificate examination and common Entrance examination were each given a cash prize of ten thousand francs each while the Council for its part also offered minimum package of materials to the private schools which excelled in the above cited examinations. He appealed to Teachers to continue to take good care of the pupils so that the schools will continue to score excellent results and make them proud.

The Divisional Delegate of Basic Education for Bui Mr. Angwafor Clement Mankefo in his speech warned teachers against petition writing wh scares people away and engage in dialogue to solve their differences instead of petition writing. He stressed on the respect of the hierarchy.

He called on teachers to help their children salvage out their didactic material arts from local materials and not to buy them for the didactic art exhibition due to take place for primary schools in Kumbo on the 26th of September 2014.

He expressed gratitude to the mayor of Kumbo Council for taking the lead in the division to come up with the distribution of the minimum package and called on the other mayors to emulate his example. He revealed that Bui Division emerged third position in the didactic Art Exhibition for schools last year.

A health staff from Kumbo West Health District presented a talk on Ebola Virus and Cholera and the use of first Aid in schools.

The occasion was attended by the Mayor of Bafut Council Mr. Langsi Abel Ngwasoh who said he learned much from Mayor Njong Donatus and will go back and introduce the minimum package to private schools which will excel in official examination next year.