Budaka school closes over immunisation
Oct 17, 2003
AUTHORITIES of Ibrahim and Mariam secondary school in Budaka, Pallisa district who are opposed to immunisation programmes, on Thursday closed the school to bar their younger students from receiving the measles vaccine.
By Jonathan Angura
AUTHORITIES of Ibrahim and Mariam secondary school in Budaka, Pallisa district who are opposed to immunisation programmes, on Thursday closed the school to bar their younger students from receiving the measles vaccine.
Resident district commissioner Geoffrey Kyomukama yesterday said the students were sent away on Thursday and yesterday the school was closed.
“We are going to take steps and have them arrested,†he said.
The school belongs to Hajji Mukama, a businessman in Budaka town, who has reportedly been opposed to immunisation programmes.
In a related development, 16 pupils of Kanginima primary school in Kakoro sub-county were hidden by their parents.
The parents are reportedly members of a religious sect, Kalecheru Church, which is under pastor Bernard Mukasa.
AUTHORITIES of Ibrahim and Mariam secondary school in Budaka, Pallisa district who are opposed to immunisation programmes, on Thursday closed the school to bar their younger students from receiving the measles vaccine.
Resident district commissioner Geoffrey Kyomukama yesterday said the students were sent away on Thursday and yesterday the school was closed.
“We are going to take steps and have them arrested,†he said.
The school belongs to Hajji Mukama, a businessman in Budaka town, who has reportedly been opposed to immunisation programmes.
In a related development, 16 pupils of Kanginima primary school in Kakoro sub-county were hidden by their parents.
The parents are reportedly members of a religious sect, Kalecheru Church, which is under pastor Bernard Mukasa.