By Our Reporters
The old boys of Kibuli SS, uniting under their association KOSA, have spoken out explaining why they have so far been invisible in the ongoing wars between their former school and facebook bully Leonard Egesa who claims existence of sex scandals at the academic power house. Led by Kitagwenda MP Agaba Abbas, who said was delegated by the very busy Alumni chairman Mohammed Nsereko, the KOSA bosses said whereas there is some grain of truth in Egesa’s social media outbursts, they don’t want to be associated to him because “there are other parallel wars propelling his actions and we don’t want to be diverted into that other war.” Agaba Abbas, who is both OB and parent at the school, said: “We appreciate his whistleblowing as OBs but we urge Mr. Egesa to stop his activities because it’s promoting negativity for the school.” The KOSA bosses were cautious in their utterances fearing to offend the subjudice rule in relation to the ongoing court proceedings in the High Court where the school and Deputy H/M Mohammed Kamulegeya (a lawyer himself) have commenced proceedings against Egesa accusing him of defamation.
The alumni called their news conference a few hours ago at Hotel Africana to announce that they recently undertook their own inquiry which disclosed the extent to which some randy teachers have been exploiting loopholes in the school management to sexually exploit students. “It should be clear that as OBs we don’t acquiesce to things Egesa brings out in his utterances. We haven’t been totally indifferent as some have said. We undertook our own investigations which have confirmed there is a problem. Our report is ready but we aren’t making it public now because it may jeopardize the ongoing investigations by the MOES or even interfere with the court proceedings.
We are going to give a copy of the report to the MOES and the Police in confidence. We are also planning the KOSA General Assembly in April where the report will be discussed in detail,” Agaba said insisting that KOSA shouldn’t be misunderstood to be fighting the school management, the board or even the foundation body headed by Prince Kassim Nakibinge. Asked whether they are ready to appear in court as witnesses to help Egesa corroborate his facebook rants in the defamation case he is facing, Agaba was ambivalent and noncommittal. “It’s something we hadn’t considered but once considered and found to be prudent we are open to that. We can consider it and take it up once approached. It’s his case; he may or may not be interested in such witnesses,” Agaba said adding that they are willing to do anything provided it will reduce negative publicity and improve the image of the school which they agreed has been dented by recent media reports relating to the Egesa case. “We aren’t only OBs but some of us are parents. I’m here talking as an OB but my daughter is in the same school and I wouldn’t want anything harmful to happen to her,” said the MP who was also a student’s leader at Kibuli SS.
NOT ALONE
Agaba was flanked by a MOES official Timothy Sejjoba, Jamil Sewaya, Zakia Maseruka, Fahad Segwanyi and Dennis Ivan Koreta who read out the press statement. Whereas Maseruka said the sexual exploitation problem wasn’t only limited to Kibuli SS and called for media partnership to remedy the situation, the rest of the members were unanimous in decrying absence of rules guiding on how closely female students should interact with male teachers while at the school.
Agaba specifically said it was improper for teachers to take advantage of especially female students from financially poor backgrounds and have private moments under the cover of night preps. “It’s obviously improper for students to be lured to go to the teachers’ quarters but some teachers are exploiting the fact that this isn’t stated anywhere in the rules to engage in misconduct with female students under the cover of night preps,” Agaba said. Koreta read out a summary of their report findings to include: board members doing business with the school, funds for staff development being abusively allocated, existence of a cartel of sex predators at the school, netballing girls from poor backgrounds being sexually exploited, some board members overstaying their membership, board members’ relatives being employed in the school and the foundation body failing in its supervisory role.
“The foundation body should rise to the occasion and properly constitute the board of governors and remove people that have overstayed. The board should ensure they properly supervise the management and ensure staff recruitment procedures are followed,” Koreta explained thanking students, parents and disgruntled staff members who volunteered information during the KOSA investigations. For comments, call/text/whatsapp us on 0703164755!
