Riot shuts institute
KABASANDA technical institute in Mpigi was on Thursday closed following a violent student strike.<br>
By Mariam Nalunkuuma
KABASANDA technical institute in Mpigi was on Thursday closed following a violent student strike.
The Police deployed at 8:00pm on Wednesday shot in the air to disperse the striking students, after concerned citizens saw fire at the institute.
The incident comes days after Gombe Secondary School and Nabumali High School students went on strike.
The principal of the institute, Sulaiman Sseggane, said, “We have resolved to close the institute till October 25. We cannot handle these unruly students here.â€
Meanwhile, Nabumali High school on Thursday suspended 51 students indefinitely over the Monday strike in which the administration block, dining hall, kitchen and food stores were burnt and window panes in all the science laboratories smashed, writes Nathan Etengu.
A joint board of governors and PTA emergency meeting on Thursday resolved to suspend the students, pending the ministry’s approval of their expulsion.
The meeting, chaired by Mbale Bishop Samwiri Wabulakha, also resolved that suspended candidates would not do their examinations at the school’s centre.
“They are free to sit for their examinations elsewhere, but not at our centre,†Wabulakha said.
“They destroyed the administration block and computer lab,†he said.
“I had heard of Joseph Kony, Alice Lakwena and Bin Laden and thought they were far. Little did I know that they had them as near as Nabumali High School,†the Bishop said.
KABASANDA technical institute in Mpigi was on Thursday closed following a violent student strike.
The Police deployed at 8:00pm on Wednesday shot in the air to disperse the striking students, after concerned citizens saw fire at the institute.
The incident comes days after Gombe Secondary School and Nabumali High School students went on strike.
The principal of the institute, Sulaiman Sseggane, said, “We have resolved to close the institute till October 25. We cannot handle these unruly students here.â€
Meanwhile, Nabumali High school on Thursday suspended 51 students indefinitely over the Monday strike in which the administration block, dining hall, kitchen and food stores were burnt and window panes in all the science laboratories smashed, writes Nathan Etengu.
A joint board of governors and PTA emergency meeting on Thursday resolved to suspend the students, pending the ministry’s approval of their expulsion.
The meeting, chaired by Mbale Bishop Samwiri Wabulakha, also resolved that suspended candidates would not do their examinations at the school’s centre.
“They are free to sit for their examinations elsewhere, but not at our centre,†Wabulakha said.
“They destroyed the administration block and computer lab,†he said.
“I had heard of Joseph Kony, Alice Lakwena and Bin Laden and thought they were far. Little did I know that they had them as near as Nabumali High School,†the Bishop said.