By JUNITA SOL GOMA
MORE than2,000 students in NCD will not be starting school today because their classrooms are falling apart.
The Hagara Primary and Elementary School will not open its gates to its students because the classrooms were not suitable for classes to be conducted.
Chairman board of management, Barnabas Pena said the school’s prospect for this year was not good and added that the school would need at least K5 million to get off the ground.
He said the buildings were more than 59 years old and had never been repaired.
He added that appeals made to the NCD education office to assist in its renovations had gone to deaf ears for the past two years.
“Unfortunately, we cannot have anyone in the classrooms because of live electric wires, rotten walls and frames that fall down at the touch of a hand and of course, holes in the roof so that teachers and students have to constantly shift themselves around when the sunlight gets unbearable or rain water leaks in,” Mr Pena said.
He said our only hope now was to appeal to the general public, business houses and leaders to help them restore this school because the Education office said last Friday that it did not have any funds .