Incompetent builders to be sued - Bitamazire
Jan 11, 2007
The education minister, Geraldine Namirembe Bitamazire, has said building contractors who do shoddy work under the Universal Secondary Education (USE) programme will be prosecuted.
By Donald Kiirya
The education minister, Geraldine Namirembe Bitamazire, has said building contractors who do shoddy work under the Universal Secondary Education (USE) programme will be prosecuted.
She said the Government would not allow to be cheated by unscrupulous contractors like those who built UPE school blocks that collapsed shortly afterwards.
“Schools built should last for 25 or more years. I ask leaders like chief administrative officers and district engineers to help monitor the construction of schools.â€
She revealed that the ministry was to construct 41 seed schools at a cost of sh5.6b in the first phase of implementation of USE.
Seed schools are to be built in sub-counties that do not have a secondary school.
Bitamazire said: “On average, each school will cost sh137m.â€
She noted that the phase to be completed in March includes building of a two-classroom block, part of the administration block, a library and a three-stance pit latrine.
On funding, Bitamazire said: “The Government will pay a fixed grant of sh7m to every participating government-aided school per term. The offer for tuition fees is sh29,420 per student per academic term and releases of the grant shall be automatic.â€
She appealed to parents to provide food and scholastic materials to their children.
Bitamazire was speaking at Nkondo Secondary School in Kamuli on Tuesday, while presiding over the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of seed schools for Kamuli, Pallisa, Budaka, Namutumba and Kumi districts.
MP Henry Balikoowa, the ministry’s construction commissioner, Justus Akankwasa, and Kamuli LC5 chief Kaugu Mugaino attended.
The education minister, Geraldine Namirembe Bitamazire, has said building contractors who do shoddy work under the Universal Secondary Education (USE) programme will be prosecuted.
She said the Government would not allow to be cheated by unscrupulous contractors like those who built UPE school blocks that collapsed shortly afterwards.
“Schools built should last for 25 or more years. I ask leaders like chief administrative officers and district engineers to help monitor the construction of schools.â€
She revealed that the ministry was to construct 41 seed schools at a cost of sh5.6b in the first phase of implementation of USE.
Seed schools are to be built in sub-counties that do not have a secondary school.
Bitamazire said: “On average, each school will cost sh137m.â€
She noted that the phase to be completed in March includes building of a two-classroom block, part of the administration block, a library and a three-stance pit latrine.
On funding, Bitamazire said: “The Government will pay a fixed grant of sh7m to every participating government-aided school per term. The offer for tuition fees is sh29,420 per student per academic term and releases of the grant shall be automatic.â€
She appealed to parents to provide food and scholastic materials to their children.
Bitamazire was speaking at Nkondo Secondary School in Kamuli on Tuesday, while presiding over the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of seed schools for Kamuli, Pallisa, Budaka, Namutumba and Kumi districts.
MP Henry Balikoowa, the ministry’s construction commissioner, Justus Akankwasa, and Kamuli LC5 chief Kaugu Mugaino attended.