Leaders worried by low turnout at schools

Benjamin Jumbe

 Local leaders in Omiya Nyima subcounty in Kitgum District are concerned about the low turn up in schools.

This comes after government allowed a phased reopening of schools that saw semi candidates return last month and other pupils in Primary 4 and 5 just returned to school this month.

The sub county’s LC 3 chairperson Julius Peter Otto says while P.6 had a good turn up, these other classes that have just been allowed to reopen have so far registered very low turn up.

He has now called a meeting with fellow leaders to devise ways of mobilizing communities and parents to have their children back to school.

The sub county has 11 government aided schools and 2 secondary schools.

Written by Noelyn Nassuuna