Bp Ssekamanya raps teachers over adultery, witchcraft

By Henry Nsubuga

THE Bishop Emeritus of Lugazi Diocese, Mathias Ssekamanya has condemned teachers and parents over witchcraft and adulterous life saying they are doing a disservice to the young ones.

Ssekamanya said children practice whatever they see their parents and teachers doing most of the times.

He related the high rate of fornication among teens to children who grow up seeing their parents and teachers.

"You cannot give what you do not have, if you parents, teachers are walking in darkness, how do you think the children are to behave otherwise!" he said.

Ssekamanya made the remarks on Sunday at St. Agnes Girls' Boarding Primary School where he commissioned a storeyed self-contained building which will house 14 teachers.

The school started by Mother Kevin of the Little Sisters of St. Francis 93 years ago has got its first teachers’ quarters, the work done by the parents for three years at a cost of sh903m.

Ssekamanya warned the school headmistress, Sister Mary Thereza Kabananura never to house any teacher who is not legally married in the school quarters.

"Let such teachers stay in rentals outside the school as it has been before to avoid their scandalous life revealed to the young children. It will not be a good example before the pupils to see Jane today and Sarah tomorrow at teacher Sam's residence," he said.

Ssekamanya also decried the abuse of ICT by teenagers today who only prefer to watch pornographic material.

Sr. Kabananura said for a long time the school has been burdened by the lack of school quarters adding most of them have been renting at Naggalama town and beyond.

"Despite the fact that our school is of a boarding section, whenever it has been raining, our teachers have been coming late and others absent themselves. Also the high rate of insecurity outside has been burdening me most," Kabananura said.

Dr. Angela Naggujja the chairperson school management committee said she believes that improving the place where teachers and their families stay will also force them to improve the quality of service they are rendering to the pupils.