By George Bukenya
The Headteacher of Shepard House High School Anna Mugisha in Mpigi district has been put behind bars allegedly for swindling a student’s registration fees.
Parents of Sumaya Nakato a UCE candidate paid shs 300,000 as registration fees purportedly received by the Headteacher Mugisha herself but the suspect failed to remit the required amount to Uganda National Examination Board living the student not registered.
Police arrested her but later released on police bond having entered into an agreement with the parents of Nakato the candidate to pay all the fees for a remedial year for the victim.
While in a candidate of Bumayoka Seed Secondary School in Bududa District was found by the UNEB scout copying from a smuggled material during the biology practical examination. The material was confiscated, however the suspect fled the examination room no sooner had the paper ended. In Kibaale District, at Karuguuza Progressive Secondary School, two candidates were also found with hand written smuggled material during the Agriculture Paper I, a similar case occurred in Mutundwe, Kampala where a students of Upland High School was also nabbed with smuggled material during physics practical examination.
The UNEB’s spokesperson Jennifer Kalule Musamba said that in such a scenario where candidates are caught by the scout with smuggled materials, they are allowed to continue with writing their papers as investigations continue to take place.
Meanwhile in Soroti District, one candidate from Erimu College, delivered a baby boy after her ICT paper. According to Kalule Musamba, she delivered from Soroti Regional Referral Hospital and was able to write her two papers the following day.