The headteacher of Teryet Secondary School, Dr Justin Yapsoyekwo, and the school bursar, Banis Chebet, have been arrested over allegations of inflating the school’s enrolment figures by 706 students to obtain government funding for non-existent learners.
Yapsoyekwo and Chebet were arrested by a joint security team following allegations that the school has only 147 students, despite school records showing an enrolment of 853.
Preliminary investigations indicate that the inflated enrolment figures allegedly enabled the school to receive about Shs 37 million per term from the government for students who were not enrolled at the school.
Sipi Police spokesperson Fredmark Chesang confirmed the arrests, saying the two suspects are being held at Kapchorwa Central Police Station as investigations continue.
Police are expected to establish how the alleged discrepancies in the enrolment figures were created and whether other officials were involved in the suspected fraud.
Very sorry and very bad
So sorry and bad
And where did we end with the LIN? The speed I have seen at Citizenship and Immigrations and the the Driving License offices can register all learners in the country in just a single school term. Why can’t we mandate them to help NIRA do the job so government will have actual numbers of the learners in their system? The other alternative is using School Pay where parents should be made to have an initial school contribution of their PTA os say 20K per student and get the code for their child. This will be used to track actual numbers. And what do the offices of the district registrars do after the elections? Can we have them support mass online enrolment at schools?