Unemployed PhD holders are indignant at the carelessness and laxity of the elites of the North region who, according to them, do not defend the interests of the region during the recruitment processes for assistants.
Young people from the North region, organized as a collective of indignant and unemployed PhD doctors, denounce the “carelessness” and “indifference” of all the region’s elites. According to them, deputies, senators, traditional, municipal, and communal authorities of the region remain silent while “the North region is systematically relegated to the background during the various phases of recruitment of assistants at the University of Garoua.”
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These young people express their “bitterness” to their elders to make them understand that the positions open at the University of Garoua are mostly filled for the benefit of candidates other than those from the region. They take as an example the last wave of special recruitment in the universities of Bertoua, Ebolowa, and Garoua. Recruitment at the end of which the Adamawa and Far North regions “outdid the North region” by obtaining more positions at the University of Garoua. However, they maintain that the sons and daughters of the North are “qualified, competent, and legitimate to occupy these assistant positions.”
Consequently, they do not seem to understand that competence, qualification, and regional balance alone are sufficient to be selected. The indignant individuals maintain that the intervention of the elites could carry enough weight so that the positions are more occupied by young people from the North. They refuse to let their elites participate through their silence in the “marginalization” of the youth of the North in this university. As a result, they are reaching out to their elites for a “collective awakening” to defend the general interest of the North region.
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The indignant doctors thus call on the elites to use their prerogatives and influence so that the principle of equity is respected in the recruitment process at the University of Garoua. They thus display a struggle that seems common to all regions where some nationals believe they should be privileged in recruitment because the university is built in their region and primarily for their region.
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