Kabalega S.S strikes, closed
Mar 06, 2010
A TOTAL of 1250 students have been suspended after a violent strike at Kabalega Secondary School in Masindi district on Wednesday.
By Pascal Kwesiga
A TOTAL of 1250 students have been suspended after a violent strike at Kabalega Secondary School in Masindi district on Wednesday.Â
The rioting male students were protesting the appointment of a new headteacher, Igidious Magara. During the riot, they burnt down two school stores chased the headteacher and teachers from the school. They also beat up students in Kijuura, a suburb of Masindi town, for refusing to join in the strike.
The headboy, Davis Hashaka, handed over the students’ petition to the Resident District Commissioner, William Kabarole, during a meeting at his office in Masindi town on Wednesday evening.
“We have looked through their petition, but their demands are unrealistic. They want the weekend preps to be removed and replaced with transnight discos,†said Kabarole. In the same petition, the students said they want the school to buy newspapers daily, to be given better meals and that entertainment activities and the use of mobile phones be reinstated.
The RDC said the students would have to make statements of commitment pledging to be disciplined when they returned to school.
In the meantime, he said, the school administration would strengthen the rules and regulations such that stringent penalties be meted out on errant students.
The students claimed they planned to march peacefully to the RDC’s office to present their grievances but turned rowdy after Police officers were deployed at their school gate at 8:00am.
“The deployment of Police officers at our school seemed like an insult to us,†said one of the students.
Magara was appointed as the new headteacher two weeks ago. He replaced David Turyagumanawe who is now at Kitara Model Secondary School in Katama Masindi town council.
Kabalega is the only boys’ school in Bunyoro.
A TOTAL of 1250 students have been suspended after a violent strike at Kabalega Secondary School in Masindi district on Wednesday.Â
The rioting male students were protesting the appointment of a new headteacher, Igidious Magara. During the riot, they burnt down two school stores chased the headteacher and teachers from the school. They also beat up students in Kijuura, a suburb of Masindi town, for refusing to join in the strike.
The headboy, Davis Hashaka, handed over the students’ petition to the Resident District Commissioner, William Kabarole, during a meeting at his office in Masindi town on Wednesday evening.
“We have looked through their petition, but their demands are unrealistic. They want the weekend preps to be removed and replaced with transnight discos,†said Kabarole. In the same petition, the students said they want the school to buy newspapers daily, to be given better meals and that entertainment activities and the use of mobile phones be reinstated.
The RDC said the students would have to make statements of commitment pledging to be disciplined when they returned to school.
In the meantime, he said, the school administration would strengthen the rules and regulations such that stringent penalties be meted out on errant students.
The students claimed they planned to march peacefully to the RDC’s office to present their grievances but turned rowdy after Police officers were deployed at their school gate at 8:00am.
“The deployment of Police officers at our school seemed like an insult to us,†said one of the students.
Magara was appointed as the new headteacher two weeks ago. He replaced David Turyagumanawe who is now at Kitara Model Secondary School in Katama Masindi town council.
Kabalega is the only boys’ school in Bunyoro.