Investigate principal

Letters

I WANT to reveal the mess with Wasu Secondary School on behalf of parents of students in Kabwum and Wasu.
Last year, the principal left with exam papers and has not returned.
He wasn’t present at the Grade 10 and 12 graduations in December.
Not one student made it into a tertiary institution.
All the suppliers of goods and services last year are still waiting for their payments.
A cheque of over K350,000 was publicly given to the principal by Tewae-Siassi MP Dr Kobby Bomareo earlier last year, in payment for the parental component of school fees of all Tewae-Siassi students.
Dr Bomareo urged the principal to reimburse monies paid by parents.
The principal, up to this day, has been avoiding the villagers seeking their refunds and service providers by hiding in Lae and his home town in Kundiawa, Chimbu. Conveniently, the school cheque book has the principal and a senior education officer at the Tutumang office in Lae as signatories.
The school board chairman, who was supposed to counter sign, was left in the dark.
There were no board meetings last year.
The Morobe education board if it exists, should sanction an immediate investigation into the accounts of Wasu Secondary School for 2019 and last year.
Headmasters cannot walk off to another school without explanations of cheque butts in huge sums written to strange businesses other than the true service providers at Wasu Station.
The responsibility for the ill-management of schools falls squarely on the provincial education board and the senior school inspector.
Principals who already have poor records and performances should be investigated and disciplined.
We hear that the principal was recently appointed deputy principal to one of the big secondary schools within Lae city this year.
What a mockery of the whole appointment-on-merit process.
The days of shifting ‘besty’ principals into remote schools are over.
The students, parents, teachers, ancillary staff, and communities at Wasu/Kabwum deserve better.

Kapi Lok,
Wasu/Kabwum

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  • Is there a Board of Management at Wasu Secondary? Its time to seek assistance from the Provincial Education Board and the Police Fraud Squad if there is evidence of misuse and definitely replace the Principal we don’t need him. The performance of a school is measured by the Academic results of students it seems there’s nothing to show for it. Sori stret papamama.

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