POLICE ARREST LISUMBWI STUDENTS

Bridget Kamanyauli

Lisumbwi Secondary School students were arrested on 23^rd January 2018. This happened because some students were suspected of being ring leaders and were asked to pay a sum of money to repair for school properties which were vandalized.

As l went around probing the issue, l found a student who said l should not mention his name explained that this happened because of the demonstration and he also added that the other reason was because the students wanted to burn the school.

When l asked my source for clarification, he said that these students were planning to burn the dining hall or the administration so that the money which they wanted to replace for the damaged materials fix this problem, so they decided to contribute a sum of K300 each and bought 12 liters of petrol.

In addition, they planned to use the same method that was used to burn the library in 2014.

But when some students heard about this they immediately reported to the head teacher. The head teacher then informed the police.

After that some students were arrested, some suspended and some expelled. All the prefects were given punishments and dismissed from their duties. Then I interviewed the deputy head teacher and he said that the same information that was given by the students.

He also added that the students were lucky that this happened because some of them would have find difficulties in finding new schools to learn while the teachers would be looking for new jobs and he said that he would make sure that this will not take place again.

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Bridget Kamanyauli is a 13 year old student at Lisumbwi Secondary School.