MUKOI`S PREDICTED ALL-TEACHERS` STRIKE ON MONDAY FEBRUARY 17

 MUKOI`S PREDICTED ALL-TEACHERS` STRIKE  ON MONDAY FEBRUARY 17

Yesterday, Billy Mukoi wrote on the yahoogroups discussion forum `camnetwork`:

“Primary, Secondary and High School teachers throughout the National Territory will be going on a three day strike in Cameroon beginning Monday February 17th, 2014. This is as an effect of low salaries and non payment of salaries for new teachers for about two years. If this 3 day strike doesn't work, we've learned that the teacher will give exams of the 5th and 6th sequences to their students but the results will not be release.

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In reply, I wrote:

“Billy Mukoi, It`s well and good to ring the alarm bells as you have
done. But what are you personally doing to solve the problem? What are
you offering as a solution, and to whom? Don`t just be the carrier of
bad news. You were not born to be a problem carrier.”

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Today, Billy replied to my reply by saying:

“Tikum Mbah Azonga, I do understand that you have been brain drained by the system in place. Is it my place to pay or give pay raises to teachers in Cameroon? It is the right of any disgruntled Cameroonian to express their feelings when the system is broken and robbed by thieves and mad men like you and your band of criminals in power. Who is Billy Mukoi to fix Cameroons' problems when bone heads like you and the dysfunctional Government in place have destroyed the riches of our Country. You need to bury your lump head in a pool of mud just to hide from shame and disgrace. Clown.”

Here is my reply to today`s diatribe from Billy:

Billy, you have lost control over your language which means you have run out of steam. If you can decry what is "broken" - and no one doubts that there are broken things in Cameroon- then why can`t you also take part in "fixing" them, or at least some of them? How then will the country move forward? What do you propose?

Like cattle at a crowded gate, you rush to use words such as "you have been brain drained by the system",  "thieves and mad men like you", "Bone heads like you", "you need to bury your lump head", and "clown"

By using such below-the-belt language you have exposed yourself as one who is incapable of sustaining a level-headed discussion. Yet you forget that the dog`s bark is not might but fright. In fact if you were speaking like an advocate in a court of law, the magistrate would ask you to mind your language.

You contradict yourself immensely by referring to Cameroon as “our country” but at the same time asking the naïve question: “Who is Billy Mukoi to fix Cameroons' problems?” Why do you believe Billy Mukoi is “someone” when it comes to pointing out wrongdoing, but becomes “nobody” when it comes to doing something about it? Battles are fought from the front, not the back. “

EBINI

says it is alright to see wrong doing and call for civil disobedience as a response. That`s fine. But what is the goal of the civil disobedience? What is its road map? What does Ebini give the teachers as marching orders? Or shall it be civil disobedience for the sake of civil disobedience?

TMA