19 October 2007
Bujumbura — The ruling party has started to blackmail teachers on strike in the province of Ngozi. Tracts calling on teachers to resume their activities and proclaiming that those who do not go back to work will suffer punitive actions are being spread in Ngozi province.
The strike of secondary school teachers began three weeks ago, but there is still no progress in talks that were aimed at putting an end to this strike. The delegates from the Second Vice Presidency of the Republic seem not to understand the deal that the Council of teachers of the secondary schools and the government signed few years ago looking for fresh talks that would lead to fresh agreements.
The action of the ruling party, that is trying to hijack the movement of the teachers, follows the decision of the education minister, Dr Saidi Kibeya, who ordered to provincial educational directors, early this week, to check the attendance of teachers in a bid to punish those who do not attend. This decision has borne no fruit as the strike is getting stuck.
Many boarding schools are now faced with shortage of food and the education ministry has already ordered that pupils should stay at schools. This decision was made after some schools in Gitega, Ngozi and Muramvya sent their pupils home. Other schools are planning to send pupils back home despite the warning from the education ministry.
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