Kisasa Primary School, which has an enrollment of 3,975 pupils, has recorded only seven learners who have been reporting to school between yesterday and today.
The Deputy Headteacher Musenge Mulambya has noted that the low attendance of pupils at the school is due to parents fleeing the area due to heightened police presence.
The media reports that Mr Mulambya said the situation has made it difficult to conduct lessons, forcing the school to combine the few available learners into one class.
“We cannot make a full class, so we have combined the few available learners, the three boys and the four girls ” he explained
Meanwhile, Kisasa Secondary School Headteacher Kenneth Lingunja said attendance has also significantly dropped.
Mr Lingunja said the school, which has about 1,400 learners, recorded about 500 pupils in the morning yesterday, but the number reduced to around 100 after parents started withdrawing their children citing insecurity.
He said the situation has disrupted learning and affected the planned academic activities, including the end-of-term tests.
“We were supposed to start our end-of-term tests, but learning has been disturbed,” he said.
Mr Lingunja further disclosed that 13 pupils, five girls and eight boys, most of them Grade 12 learners, were picked up during a police operation.
Meanwhile, a check in the area found most homes locked and deserted.
A resident, who declined to be named, said many people have fled their homes and are hiding in nearby bush areas for fear of being apprehended by police.
He said the situation remains tense, with residents living in fear.
“People are being picked up by the police, so everyone is leaving in fear,” he said.
The resident added that the closure of the local market has worsened the situation, limiting access to food supplies.
He, however, condemned the mob killing and urged members of the public to refrain from taking the law into their own hands.
After the PF Northwestern province Chairman Jackson Kungo was killed in cold blood in Solwezi in the 2021 elections, the new government that assumed office should have widely condemned that act and brought people to account, that was going to be the best way to sensitise the community in northwestern province on the consequences of barbarism.
Everything you disgruntled PF thugs see is politics. Why didn’t ECL instruct the Home Affairs ministry to carry out arrests. I don’t believe the current president should be blamed for what happened when he was in opposition. You guys didn’t bother even for your own kind, as long as you got what you wanted
its true Feckson Siamutti
This story skirts around issues. It doesn’t explain what’s caused the students and pupils to desert the school. This can’t be professional. Answer the relevant questions please