A Solwezi community school plot has been encroached by residents posing a threat to the development of the school.
Chamuta Community School Head Teacher, Fredrick Fwoloshi has since appealed to Solwezi Municipal Council to help remove the people that have encroached on the school plot.
Mr Fwoloshi said the permanent structures that were being constructed on the plot were posing a threat to the development of the school.
He noted with sadness that the future of Chamuta Community School was uncertain as there was no room left for the expansion adding that even the road to the school was blocked.
[pullquote]He noted with sadness that the future of Chamuta Community School was uncertain as there was no room left for the expansion adding that even the road to the school was blocked.[/pullquote]
Mr Fwoloshi made the appeal in an interview with ZANIS in Solwezi today.
He said the children cannot have extra curricular activities such as productive unit and physical education because the school has been surrounded by houses.
Mr Fwoloshi further said the environment was no longer conducive for effective learning hence the need for the council to move in as soon as possible.
When contacted for a comment, Solwezi Municipal Council, Public Relations Officer, Chris Mulaliki said the council is not sitting idle and will soon move in to re-demarcate boundaries for the school in the district.
Mr Mulaliki said the council has observed with sadness that there has been an increase of wrangles between schools and communities in the district.
He said that it was unfortunate that people were building on school plots and warned that the local authority would soon start demolishing structures that have been built without the council’s approval.
ZANIS
Solwezi district council should give these people plots and advise them to move away from the school area.
In my own opinion the head of the sckool, is to blame. That is incompetence on the part of the school manager, how do u jst sit back seeing people constructing buildings in the skool area without taken an action and now that the situation has gone out of hand u cry fawl to the council authority….iye ba Fwoloshi!! U are really a Kaonde ukushishita.