EPST printing works: Deputy Minister Aminata Namasia inquires about working conditions

At the request of Minister Tony Mwaba Kazadi, Aminata Namasia Bazego, Deputy Minister of Primary, Secondary, and Technical Education (EPST), visited the General Inspectorate’s printing press to get a firsthand look at the realities of the work. At the same time, she went to encourage the Deputy General Inspectors who were in a workshop on the revival of the Inspectorate Trilogy. Upon her arrival, Deputy Minister Aminata Namasia was greeted by the Deputy Inspector General in charge of Human Resources. She toured all the facilities of the EPST General Inspectorate’s printing press—a key ministry resource responsible for producing all high-value printed materials—to gain firsthand insight into the realities of the work. This visit followed a working session chaired by the National Minister of EPST, an evaluation of his close associates, both from the Central Administration and his Political Cabinet, the first two of whom are the Deputy Inspectors General in charge of Evaluations and State Diplomas, respectively. At the conclusion of this working session, Professor Tony Mwaba Kazadi tasked Deputy Minister Aminata Namasia with conducting an on-site visit to the General Inspectorate’s printing press to verify the situation described by the two Inspectors. The EPST’s second-in-command first visited the complaints office, then proceeded to the machine room, followed by the archives containing all diplomas dating back to 1967, before inspecting the reception room for final exam records, where they are sorted and categorized according to those who passed and those who failed their state diplomas. Deputy Minister Aminata Namasia expressed satisfaction with her visit to the printing press, where certain departments have requested Minister Tony Mwaba’s involvement for its renovation. On site, she instructed the Deputy Inspector General in charge of archives to proceed with digitizing the records to properly preserve academic documents and prevent the spread of disease. Killing two birds with one stone, the EPST’s second-in-command also visited the meeting room where a capacity-building workshop for Deputy General Inspectors on the “inspectional trilogy” was being held. Aminata Namasia greeted the participants and encouraged them to thoroughly absorb the material throughout the workshop. The Deputy General Inspectors emerged from this workshop well-prepared to, in turn, pass on the knowledge they acquired to other inspectors in the country’s various provinces, all with the aim of improving the quality of learning in the era of free primary education—a flagship reform of the five-year term of the President of the Republic, Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo.   Christian BELLA