PUPILS STRANDED AS THEIR SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED.

[OMARA RONNIE]

Two privately-owned primary schools in Amolatar district have been closed indefinately over poor sanitation and operating without licences. 

The schools are Ambassador of Hope and Life in King Jesus primary schools. District authorities closed both schools located in Arwot cek sub-county recently. The schools were also located in the same area with market as children sleep in a lock-up structures. 

All the 19 pupils who registered for Primary Leaving Examinations in Life in King Jesus Primary School were immediately transferred to nearby schools of Aburkidi Primary School and Abwong Primary School as other parents have considered transferring their children to other private Schools to complete their Third term Studies as others are spending days at home with their parents. 

According to Richard Ogwang Odyero, the Amolatar Resident District Commissioner who closed the Schools, the directors of these two schools were extorting money from unsuspecting persons who even feared to report. 

Primary One to Primary Four pupils of Ambassador of Hope Primary School shared a classroom and is located in a market. Meanwhile, Life in King Jesus Primary School did not have dormitories, instead it accomodated both boys and girls in one house which is an old church building and use the main Church partitioned by papyrus mats as classrooms.

Ongom Geoffrey the director of Ambassador of hope could not be reached as he is not picking up the phone while Ebil Patrick the director of Life in King Jesus has August 15th been arrested and remanded to Amolatar Government prison on allegations of defiling a Seven year old minor of his School.

Omara Ronnie

Radio Wa 89.8FM

[Sly]

It’s rather disheartening that ambassadors of hope did not offer hope
for the children and that life in King Jesus could not offer salvation
to the little angels.

But I think this should serve as a lesson to all stakeholders, parents
and teachers; it’s merciless, inhumane and mean to subject our next
generation to intolerable conditions.

What grades would a parent expect from a child who studied in a market
area? Why should anyone manage a boarding school with no dormitories
and instead accommodate both boys and girls in one house which is even
an old church building?

Our Children deserve better.

Sylvia