Students demonstrate in front of the National Assembly

Forty students of Higher Medical technology Institute (ISTM) of Nkolondom, a suburb of Yaounde dressed in their white coats lined up along the wall of the Leclerc school facing the National Assembly at the beginning of the opening session on the budget review ceremony.

Among the demands of these students, the payment by the Ministry of Higher Education a portion of the cost of training of each as provided in a framework agreement signed last year between the Ministry of Higher Education and the management of the institute.

The agreement signed by the Minister Jacques Fame Ndongo says students of the ISTM Nkolondom had to pay 50,000 CFA francs annually under the tuition fees, as well as their counterparts in State schools.

The Ministry of Higher Education agreed to pay the remaining balance of 550,000 CFA francs for each student.

MINESUP ahs until now failed to fulfill its part of the contract, hence the anger of the students who decided to pound the pavement in front of the National Assembly, which had the Minister Jacques Fame Ndongo present. Their moment of anger was quickly dispersed by security forces.