Low Grade One enrolment riles chief

ILY DA

SENIOR chief Sailunga of the Lunda people in Mwinilunga has warned of stern action against parents whose eligible children have not been enrolled into Grade One.

The traditional leader said every parent who has not enrolled their eligible children into Grade One will go and work at his farm as punishment.

“You who have not enrolled your children in Grade One, I am taking you for cultivation at my farm, this I will do,

I don’t lie,” Senior Chief Sailunga said.

He sounded the warning during a community sensitization exercise on child

Thursday

protection held at Kazozu

September, 2020

primary school in Mwinilunga yesterday.

He expressed displeasure at the low enrolment of children in grade one at the school.

The visibly annoyed traditional leader said he was ashamed to learn that only 28 children had been enrolled into Grade One at the school.

Senior chief Sailunga said he understood the demographics of Kazozu community hence will not accept that only 28 children had enrolled at the school.

He said he will, in the company of the area councillor and the school head teacher, go from house to house to register all the children in Kazozu community.

“Tomorrow at 08:00 hours I will be coming back here passing door to door registering children into grade one, every child I will find will register for grade one enrolment,” he said.

The traditional leader since has pledged to buy books and pencils for all the children he will enrol at the school. - ZANIS