Live bullets and teargas rocked Ndorwa Muslim Secondary School in Southern Division in Kabale Municipality as police tried to quell down a violent strike by students.
Students rampaged on Wednesday afternoon and started pelting their teachers with stones and destroyed window panes in several classrooms.
The anti-riot police intervened, fired live bullets and teargas to disperse the striking students. Police also picked up one of the students believed to be the mastermind of the strike and locked him at Kabale Central Police Station.
The young and naïve students accuse the school administration of increasing tuition in the middle of the term from Shillings 90,000 to 130,000 with promises of improving the quality of posho served at the school in vain. They also accuse their deputy head teacher, Dominic Tumukunde alias Doxy of stealing Shillings 20,000 from a senior one student identified as Ronald Ainamani.
One of the students told this website on condition of anonymity that Tumukunde got a chance to steal the money when Ainamani picked a meal card from his pocket to present it to the chef to get food. He also claimed that the deputy head teachers used the same trick last week and stole Shillings 70,000 from another student.
Another student says they rampaged after getting tired of being fed on rotten posho. He explained that despite increasing tuition to address the problem, the school management did nothing. But the Deputy Head Teacher, Dominic Tumukunde has rubbished the accusations leveled against him as false, saying most of the students who participated in the strike acted under influence of the influence of Alcohol.
Ismail Kyooma Baguma, the Head Teacher Ndorwa Muslim Secondary School couldn't be reached for comment as he was not at the school and his known mobile was unavailable. Majid Alituha, the Officer in Charge of Operations at Kabale Central Police Station, says police had to intervene to stop the students from destroying school property as well as harming their teachers.
Police was still deployed at the school by press time
