University of Douala student describes the promise made by the Head of State to offer them Laptops as an expensive joke

A vexed Douala University student has expressed his anger towards the unfulfilled promise of the HE Paul Biya to provide laptops to every university student in Cameroon. According to Emile Ndiague Romel, a fifth year science student, the promise that has left many university students frustrated, was a joke that shouldn’t have been cracked in the first place. 

“It is over 9 months since the president of the republic promised every university student laptops. We were very happy and even demonstrated our joy by organizing a thank you march. Our department already prepared the list of students to benefit from these laptops but up till now we have not received anything yet” says Emile. “I am in my final Masters 2 level and I am supposed to be using my own laptop to carry out research for my theses but the laptops are nowhere to be found” he adds.

Djoumbi Jeannette a level 3 student of the same university expresses doubts on the issue as she says they keep postponing dates of issuing the said laptops.

“We were promised to be given these laptops at the beginning of the 2016/2017 school year but we never received. The date was pushed to the end of February 2017, a date which was still not respected. We are now at the beginning of April. We don’t know what has become of this promise” says Jeannette. 

Nevertheless, the students are still eager for the Laptops and hope that the President of the republic fulfills his promise.