Higher Education Minister bribes student to resume classes

The population of Kumba was dazed when Higher Education Minister Prof. Jacques Fame Ndongo bribed a sudent with 5000frs and urged the youngster and other parents to send their children to school.

Fame Ndongo stopped his convoy, removed the money from his pocket and offered to the child who was wearing a T-Shirt bearing the inscriptions of the Cameroon College of Arts and Science, CCAS, Kumba.

As parents and onlookers watched with delight, Fame Ndongo minced no words in calling for a massive return of children back to school.

The Minister spoke to the hearing of the children and parents around the neighbourhood urging them to return to school.

Even as many saluted the action of the Higher Education boss, questions arose as to whether the child was actually a student or a boiled egg hawker.

Earlier in the morning before the Minister arrived to lay the foundation stone of the Higher Technical Teachers’ College Kumba, the same child was spotted hawking boiled eggs in a bucket.

Given that the Minister's made his gesture action later in the afternoon after the said child had sold the eggs, some have believed that luck simply smiled on the boy.

Though many debated on whether the child is a student, others hold that given his age, the boy must be a student. It is believed that the social tension that has crippled effective learning in the North West and South West Regions pushed the kid into hawking.