Uganda: Expose Arsonists - School Head

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New Vision (Kampala)

29 June 2008
Posted to the web 30 June 2008

Ali Mambule
Kampala

FIRST expose the people responsible for burning schools before teaching pupils how to fight fire, the Government has been told.

The head teacher of Uganda Martyrs Primary School Katwe in Masaka municipality, Edward Wandera, made the appeal last week at the end of a fire-fighting lesson for pupils and teachers. It was conducted by the district Police fire master, Richard Mudungu.

"It is surprising that since the burning of schools escalated, no arsonist has been arrested and shown to the public.

"It is a pity. The Government should arrest these people. We want to see them," said Wandera.

He added that the Police's efforts to give pupils fire-fighting skills would come to naught if nobody was punished for causing the fires.

In the worst school fire incident in recent months, 20 pupils of Budo Junior School died on April 14 when their dormitory went up in smoke.

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Many other schools have since then been torched under mysterious circumstances.

But Mudungu said whereas fire outbreaks in schools were sometimes accidental, the students needed the skills to control fire anywhere, including their homes.

He noted that candles, lanterns, poor power connections and electric short circuits were the major causes of fire oubreaks in schools and homes.

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