After the tragedy that befell Lhubiriha secondary school in Mpondwe , kasese district in wee hours of 16 June, where nearly 43 people lost their lives and majority were students of this institution and six girls of the same institution were abducted by the ADF of which three escaped from these five militants who attacked the institution according to Brig.Felix Kulayigye spokesperson of the UPDF in a phone call interview.
Since 1998, 25 years of no attacks because. The last attacks were to Kichwamba Technical institute and Secret Heart ,were similar incidents of butchering, setting students in dormitories to conflagration and abduction of students happened in a similar manner.
It’s this inhuman precedence that has scared off all students in the Kasese schools especially those in the vicinity of Mpondwe to leave schools due to fear, that what happened at Lhubiriha secondary school was only at tip of an ice bag to what may happen to them. They add that school should be a place of peace and center for learning but not worry, murder and persecution.
The schools were forced to go to temporary lockdown as the situation calms down, the parents are also hesitant to return their children to schools because they are not certain of what will happen.
They are uncertain of safe they are, they argue that they can’t trust the UPDF fully because the Mountain Brigade headquarters are only 6km from where the attack was and a police post is only 2km away from the Same school but the delayed to respond and were unable to detect the attack.
The RDC of kasese district Lt col. John Walsuimbi in a joint security meeting he asked parents to return students to schools, he adds that security is more alert than never before and promises that all Schools are going to have two shifts of guards, those that guard in the morning and those in the evening, he further told the press that government is going to do students talk to rehabilitate psychotherapy of all stakeholders.
Article by,
KATONGOLE ARNOLD
