The resounding call for the sit down strike by school teachers appears to have reached all corners of the country including some of the remotest areas like Karamoja sub-region in north eastern Uganda. Teachers there have also joined the strike action and schools remain closed.
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At the schools sampled in Moroto district, Moroto Municipal primary school opened with teachers reporting to school but that is as far as it went. They did not proceed beyond the head teacher’s office while the few pupils that reported to school resorted to playing about in the compound.
At KDA primary school however, no teacher left his or her house to report for duty. The head teacher’s office was closed and there was no sign that the third term was due to open any time soon as desks were still piled upon against each other in the classrooms.
One of the teachers here declined to talk to the media claiming that she was sick while Nangiro Peter, a Primary One teacher, who was also found seated in his house, expressed solidarity with his countrywide counterparts.
In Kasimeri primary school, the head teacher Okello Abedism claimed that all his teachers had reported to school but no teaching was going on pending a communication fro UNATU.
Prior to the opening of schools, Moroto district officials had summoned all head teachers for a meeting at the District Chamber hall and urged them encourage the teachers to teach as government studies their salary demand.
The Assistant Chief Administrative Officer Moroto Edward Eko had resounded the warning from government of punitive action for teachers deemed to have absconded.
Source: WBSTVONLINE
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