Police in Ngoma District has detained four of Mutenderi Secondary school staff in Ngoma District for wrongfully admit 300 students.
The four staffs of the school that included its head teacher Bonneur Gapira Maombi are accused of violating powers and abusing responsibilities of Rwanda Education Board charged with students’ transfers and admissions to different schools.
It is said that one teacher collected money from the students before they could be registered.
The Minister of State in charge of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Mathias Harebamungu, has called for immediate thorough investigations into the matter.
Harebamungu say that the 2007 law on enrolment and transfer of students bars head teachers from carrying out admissions themselves.
He stated that similar cases had previously surfaced in the neighbouring district of Kayonza.
“Mutenderi’s head teacher went against the law, the motive is yet to be found but all sorts of suspicions can be thought of. It is known to all that only REB enrolls students and their transfers are handled by districts,” he said.
“Involving head teachers in student enrolment could encourage such malpractices corruption, favouritism and nepotism”.
“He picked students from nine-year basic education programme, something that has a very negative implication. He had no right at all. I think the district will know how to handle this case”.
An order from schools inspectors have been issued to the school administration to send back the students where they had come from.
According to an eye witness at the scene, the school seemed to have no capacity to handle the 300 students to be accommodated by the school.
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