UGX 200,000 charge for parents who do not send their children to school
The Apac district has proposed a UGX 200,000 charge for parents who do not send their children to school.
The Apac district has proposed a UGX 200,000 charge for parents who do not send their children to school.
When schools resume on Monday next week, the Apac district council has decided to arrest and penalize parents who refuse to take their children back to school.
In a recent address to the country, President Yoweri Museveni approved the reopening of schools.
All learning institutions will resume on the 10th of January this year, according to a comprehensive school reopening plan released by First Lady and Education Minister Janet Kataha Museveni, following a long hiatus in March last year following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Following the decision to reopen schools, Apac district leaders have decided to arrest parents who refuse to send their children to school and punish them 200,000 shillings.
The district leaders discovered that a lot of parents in the district have engaged their children in economic activities such as selling alcohol and fishing, particularly in regions near landing places, at a council meeting on Monday at Apac Scouts Hall.
The resolution is in conformity with the district education ordinance issued in the 2016/17 fiscal year, according to Apac district speaker Peter Obong Acuda. Those who refuse to send their children back to school, he claims, would be detained and fined 200,000 shillings.
Obong Acuda urged parents to keep a tight eye on their children while they are at home in the coming days to safeguard them from child rights violators.
Daudi Odora, a male councilor from Chegere sub-county, said a team of sub-county leaders is already in place in all of his sub-parishes, county’s ready to implement the decision once schools reopen.
Parents who spoke with our reporter were ecstatic by the council resolution.
Francis Opio, a resident of Chegere sub-Ololango county’s parish, requested that the district leadership investigate the fate of some of the young females who were married off during the lockdown.
