BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-Ministry of Education Science and Technology (MoEST) has chosen to remain mum on the demonstration by students in some parts of the country against the ongoing teachers stay away.

According to the ministry’s Spokesperson, Chikondi Chimala, the ministry’s negotiating team, Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) and civil servants trade union are currently banging heads to arrive at a lasting solution to the stand off.

Since yesterday, learners in some public primary and secondary schools from  Mzuzu and Blantyre Cities have been demonstrating as a way of displaying their displeasure with the teachers industrial action in form of stay away.

In Mzuzu, for in instance, learners from St. Augustine Primary School took to the street while chanting songs of  anger for a distance of at least 6 kilometres.

The case was not different in Blantyre where learners from Catholic Institute Primary School also took to the street chanting different songs and blocking the road at some point.

Meanwhile, teachers  conspicuously seem to have differed on the stay away as some of them have been teaching while other are going by their union’s stand until government bows down to their demands.

Public schools teachers and Teachers Training Colleges (TTCs) lecturers in the country have since yesterday resumed a stay away in order to force government to give them risk allowances against the current Covid-19 pandemic.