Two students electrocuted

Sep 30, 2008

Shock and grief gripped students of Butsibo Secondary School in Bushenyi district on Saturday when two students were electrocuted.

By Chris Ahimbisibwe

Shock and grief gripped students of Butsibo Secondary School in Bushenyi district on Saturday when two students were electrocuted.

Ten other students, who were also shocked, were taken to Mbarara Hospital.

Police said the students who died were Mark Nabimanya of senior three and Gilbert Mpereza, a senior four candidate.

The district Police commander, Jimmy Oyuku, said the students were erecting a tent in the school compound under an electricity power line, in preparation of a scripture union conference.

Oyuku blamed the school administration and the proprietors of the company that hired the tents to the school for negligence.

“The school administration should have used the owners of the tents to erect them,” Oyuku said.

He also blamed UMEME for the bad wiring system saying: “The step-down transformer is within the school and yet it is supposed to be outside. The high voltage was running over the school.”

Oyuku said the manager and three workers of Kabs-up-Services, the company that hired the tents to the school, had been arrested.

He added that one of the workers was a teacher at the school.

Oyuku said Moses Bainomugisha, the teacher, got the tender to hire the tents.

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