KABALE: MURUNGU GOV’T AIDED P/S OPERATES IN MISERABLE STATE

By Grant Ahumuza
www.mknewslink.com
In Kabale

Murungu public primary school in Rubaya sub-county Ndorwa west Constituency Kabale district is in a sorry state.
The government aided school, which has an enrollment of 166 pupils, operates in 2 dilapidated classrooms built by the community in 2000.
The lessons are disrupted whenever it rains forcing all pupils to converge in the only one block which is used as staff room, library, dining room and houses for two teachers.
The classrooms have broken windows, doors, cracked walls, dusty room floors and leaking roof. The school operates with broken pit latrines.
Teachers have abandoned their staff quarters due to a bushy environment.
According, Enock Twinomugisha, the head teacher Murungu public primary school, the situation at the school is alarming.
Twinomugisha noted that the school has only one toilet which is shared by males and females and the classrooms don’t have windows appealing to the government to come to their rescue.
Innocent Turyatunga, the school’s Management chairperson, said that they have severally raised their concerns to the district authorities but there is no positive response.
Bahebwa Stanly, a resident said it is embarrassing for the only traditional school in the sub-county to operate in dilapidated structures.
However, Moses Tumwijukye, the Kabale district inspector of schools, said that the district education departments don’t have funds to build and renovate the school.
Mean while a USA-based charity organization, Tukundane international, has donated scholastic materials and equipment to the school.

Over 166 pupils received scholastic materials from the charity organisation, such as uniforms, exercise books, crayons, erasers pencils, pens and bags, which are meant to boost the academic performance of scholars in the school.

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