Two teachers in police custody for battering senior one student
Two teachers of Nakasongola Army Secondary School have been arrested for assaulting a student.
The teachers are Corporal Jackson Bitaryebwa and Private Enoth Tindimwebwa attached to Nakasongola Army Barracks.
They are accused of assaulting Andrew Kasita a student in senior one, leaving him unable to sit and walk. Kasita sustained severe injuries on the buttocks after he was caned.
Kasita is currently receiving treatment at Bombo Military Hospital after the parent petitioned the office of the Resident District Commissioner on Thursday.
Godfrey Lutalo, the LCIII Chairperson of Nakitoma sub county and parent to the student explains that the teachers picked up his son on Tuesday and whipped him several times. This is after a fellow student named him among those who were stealing books and selling them to chapatti dealers.
Lutalo says that he met the headteacher and teacher on Wednesday who apologized but refused to release the student from the dormitory for treatment.
“The student was released on Thursday night after the intervention of RDC and transferred to Bombo Military Hospital for medical check-ups as well as treatment. My son is in bad shape, unable to walk or sit because of the severe injuries,” Lutalo says.
Two teachers in police custody for battering senior one student
Captain Favourite Rugumayo the Spokesperson of Nakasongola Army Barracks says that the Force doesn’t support corporal punishments and as a result, the two teachers have been detained to explain what happened to the student.
Rugumayo adds that the two will face the Unit disciplinary court if the investigations pin them of administering corporal punishment on the student.
Samuel Mbangire, the Nakasongola District Inspector of Schools that the district education department has asked the Board of Governors of the school and the Barracks to provide a report by Tuesday on what happened and action taken against the teachers using their own disciplinary mechanism.
It’s reported that this was not the first incident, several learners have been complaining of corporal punishments.
Cases of corporal punishment are still prevalent in schools despite its abolition in Uganda in 2016 by the insertion of a new article, 106A, into the Children Act. The article stipulates that a person of authority in an institution of learning must not subject a child to any form of corporal punishment.
On Tuesday, a biology teacher identified only as Anthony of Premier Secondary School in Hoima City allegedly assaulted a senior four student into a coma.
The victim, Brenda Matsika, was hospitalized at EDPA Medical Center in Hoima City.
According to reports, the teacher accused Matsika of failing to achieve a passing grade in a biology examination administered to the senior four class.
It is alleged that the teacher repeatedly whipped the student, causing her to collapse.
Two teachers in police custody for battering senior one student
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