Calls for more schools in Amuria

Over 100 children of school-going age are unable to access education in Alalar village in Airabet Parish Okungur sub-county in Amuria district.
 
Government's plan is to see that a child does not walk more than two kilomteres to access a nearby school.
 
Joseph Eriaku, the LC1 Secretary for Alalar village says children join school late because they cannot manage to walk for over five kilometers to reach Kapelebyong and Amootom Primary schools to learn.
 
According to Eriaku, even the nursery schools established in the Catholic churches there are not offering better education and it necessitates for them to pay fees.
 
He is asking government to construct for them a school of four classrooms.
 
William Egadu, the ICU coordinator for Okungur and Kapelebyong sub-counties, says lack of education services in the area will take them ten more years to develop like other areas.

The Assistant CAO of Amuria Paul Edotu says Okungur being a new sub-county created in 2011 still lacks several facilities including a government-aided school.
 
He however says the district has submitted the name of the community school started in that area so that it is coded by government.