MASINDI HEADTEACHER DEFILES TWO P.7 CANDIDATES

By Innocent Atuganyira
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In Masindi—-
Police in Masindi district have arrested Kiiza Yosea, the head teacher at St. Kizito Primary School Murro on allegations of defiling two primary seven pupils.

The school is Catholic Church founded, mixed day and boarding under government.

According to Christopher Katusiime, the parent of a 13-year-old victim and a resident of Kyakabande Village, Kahembe Parish Bwijanga Sub County Bujenje County, the suspect accused the learner of sleeping with men
”He called me and said that my daughter was caught red-handed with a man, upon interrogation, she denied and said that the head teacher has been using her,”Katusiime said.

The aggrieved parent also disclosed that the head teacher could entice the learner to lay for him his bed which resulted into the gruesome incident.

”He called for the meeting yesterday after the rumors spread in the area, after the meeting I was informed that he has been arrested,” he told our reporter.
Katube also asserted that he has opened a defilement case at Masindi Central Police Station and he wants such teachers to resign.
”I haven’t got a medical report but statements have been recorded at the same police station,” he added.
Muganyizi Lovious, a parent of a 15-year-old victim told our reporter that her child was picked by the suspect from school to another place {Kinenabuhere} without their knowledge where she spent a night.

After interrogating the victim, she confessed to having been used by the head teacher.

Muganyizi said that this prompted him to take her child for medical examination which confirmed the head teacher to have slept with the child though she is not pregnant.

”After I reported the matter at the Bwijanga police post, we were referred to Masindi Central Police Station,” she said.

Sources allege that the head teacher has been sleeping with over six learners in the same school and two are pregnant.

When contacted, Mr. Adolf Kato the Masindi District Education Officer said that he was informed about the arrest of his head teacher but had not yet got the details.

The Albertine Region Police Spokesperson Julius Allan Hakiza confirmed the arrest of the head teacher and said that inquiries are underway.

”The suspect was arrested on Sunday and he is in our custody at Masindi Central Police Station,” he confirmed.