Students caught drinking

By MARJORIE FINKEO
THE 10 students from Badihagwa Technical Secondary student who were caught drinking homebrew at Kanudi, outside Port Moresby, will be expelled, according to principal Maru Bala.
Bala told The National that drinking, cult and other criminal activities practised inside and outside of the school premiers is zero tolerance from the Education Department policy.
“Today’s generation is very ignorant, we have warn those thousands times but they have never took the advice,” he said.
Bala said the school administration will meet with the students and their parents before the board will makes a final decision.
“I will also meet with the police and find out which officers uploaded the pictures because it is against the law and seem as a cybercrime,” he said.
“It is not their business to upload such but their work to make arrest, the people in the yard that invited the students in to drink will face law too.”
According to the education calendar, schools are currently on term three holidays and will resume on Sept 30.
The five grade nine girls and five boys (mixture of grade 11 and 12) were released by police without any charges on Friday at Idubada Police Post.
Reserved Const Maraga Homoka told the media the students were drinking in a condemned yard when police were alerted by the surrounding communities watching the students creating domestic noise and doing other social activities. “The students were released without charges after the principal advised police the students will face school disciplinary actions,” Idubada Police Post officer-in-charge Snr Const Tobby Kauke said.