Filthy school angers Mbarara municipality
Mbarara municipal leaders are bitter with the management of Mbarara United Pentecostal Primary School for neglecting the sanitation of the school.<br>
By Simon Mugenyi
Mbarara municipal leaders are bitter with the management of Mbarara United Pentecostal Primary School for neglecting the sanitation of the school.
Hajjat Nuriat Musoke, Mbarara’s deputy mayor, said last week that the proprietor of the school, Rev. Jasper Safari, has not been co-operative in the municipality’s efforts to uplift the hygiene and general standards of the school.
The school’s pit latrines are full and the urinals have poor flow.
Musoke revealed that materials had already been provided by Mbarara municipality to help the school to work on its sanitation facilities, yet no work had been done.
The boarding school, with over 500 pupils, emits a stench that is irritating to the surrounding community. The headmaster’s office was locked by the Rev. Safari for unknown reasons.
“As Mbarara municipality, we are going to do whatever is possible to uplift the standards of the school. We won’t allow him to stop us,†Musoke said, adding that, “Our fear is that the children are going to get sick.â€
Efforts to talk to Rev. Safari proved futile, since he was not at the school and his phone number could not be obtained.
The deputy mayor said that if the need arose, both the LC1 chairperson of Ntare Cell and the Rev. Safari should be arrested for sabotaging the municipality’s efforts to control any disease outbreak that could potentially put the lives of children at a risk.
Mbarara municipal leaders are bitter with the management of Mbarara United Pentecostal Primary School for neglecting the sanitation of the school.
Hajjat Nuriat Musoke, Mbarara’s deputy mayor, said last week that the proprietor of the school, Rev. Jasper Safari, has not been co-operative in the municipality’s efforts to uplift the hygiene and general standards of the school.
The school’s pit latrines are full and the urinals have poor flow.
Musoke revealed that materials had already been provided by Mbarara municipality to help the school to work on its sanitation facilities, yet no work had been done.
The boarding school, with over 500 pupils, emits a stench that is irritating to the surrounding community. The headmaster’s office was locked by the Rev. Safari for unknown reasons.
“As Mbarara municipality, we are going to do whatever is possible to uplift the standards of the school. We won’t allow him to stop us,†Musoke said, adding that, “Our fear is that the children are going to get sick.â€
Efforts to talk to Rev. Safari proved futile, since he was not at the school and his phone number could not be obtained.
The deputy mayor said that if the need arose, both the LC1 chairperson of Ntare Cell and the Rev. Safari should be arrested for sabotaging the municipality’s efforts to control any disease outbreak that could potentially put the lives of children at a risk.