Nabumali story full of inaccuracies
Nov 23, 2009
Editor—I wish to reactto the story “Nabumali struggles to rise from ashes†published on November 18.<br>The story is full of inaccuracies. Nabumali still remains a ‘super power’ in the country. Consider the students admitted in S1.
Editor—I wish to reactto the story “Nabumali struggles to rise from ashes†published on November 18.
The story is full of inaccuracies. Nabumali still remains a ‘super power’ in the country. Consider the students admitted in S1.
On average, boys come with aggregate 8 and girls 9. We need to give credit to the other headteachers like Mr. Mafabi. He is the one behind the gravity water in the school. He also built the girls’ hostel. The current headmaster and his staff should stop considering themselves as angels. Evidence shows that other headmasters have played their part too. The issue of the bursar was simply due to weak internal controls in place. I don’t think that these issues have been fully solved.
As an accountant, there has been a lot of window- dressing to the school financial statements. If we can do a value-for- money audit then there is still a problem with Nabumali’s financial management.
The increase in population was not done by the past headmasters. It was simply the law of supply and demand. It is sad to hear the current headmaster accusing his predecessors of not knowing the number of students in the school. As we have a re-union dinner, the window dressing must stop. We should aim at solving the current problems rather than looking at what the others failed to achieve.
Andrew Khaweka
Old Boy 1994-1999
The story is full of inaccuracies. Nabumali still remains a ‘super power’ in the country. Consider the students admitted in S1.
On average, boys come with aggregate 8 and girls 9. We need to give credit to the other headteachers like Mr. Mafabi. He is the one behind the gravity water in the school. He also built the girls’ hostel. The current headmaster and his staff should stop considering themselves as angels. Evidence shows that other headmasters have played their part too. The issue of the bursar was simply due to weak internal controls in place. I don’t think that these issues have been fully solved.
As an accountant, there has been a lot of window- dressing to the school financial statements. If we can do a value-for- money audit then there is still a problem with Nabumali’s financial management.
The increase in population was not done by the past headmasters. It was simply the law of supply and demand. It is sad to hear the current headmaster accusing his predecessors of not knowing the number of students in the school. As we have a re-union dinner, the window dressing must stop. We should aim at solving the current problems rather than looking at what the others failed to achieve.
Andrew Khaweka
Old Boy 1994-1999