BOSETU's Executive Secretary, Justin Hunyepa, said the delivery of the petition, supposed to be delivered on Tuesday, had to be cancelled after the minister made it clear that she had parliamentary business on that particular day. Hunyepa said Venson-Moitoi had also indicated that she wanted the teachers to engage with her first and be given a chance to give them feedback before they embarked on a petition.
Hunyepa said BOSETU interprets that to mean that the Minister refused to accept their petition on the above grounds. He said the union requested to petition the Minister last week and no response was given only to receive the Ministers' response late on Monday when petition-processing offices had closed down for the day. "This meant that handing over the petition the next day was bound to fail because the police would not grant BOSETU the permit that goes with handing over petitions. The police needed the letter from the recipient of the petition that proves that the recipient is ready to receive such. It is a police requirement and the Ministry deliberately delayed so that the police permit fails," he said.
