BY ABDALA MASEREKA
At least 57 children under the age of 14 were today morning arrested in an operation carried out by the Kasese Municipality Education Inspectorate against children who loiter in market centres.
Speaking to the press at Kasese Central Police Station shortly after the operation, the Kasese Municipal Inspector of Schools, Jackline Kabugho Mujungu, revealed that the decided to conduct the operation after realizing a low turn-up in schools ever since the first school term began.
According to her, the parents have developed a tendency of using children of school-going age into their businesses in disguise of looking for school fees.
She urged the parents to always take their children to relatively affordable schools especially the government grant aided institutions of learning.
ASP Jane Ngelese, the Officer in-charge of Family and Child Protection Unit at Kasese Police Division, noted that some children were failing to report to schools due to domestic violence in their homes.
ASP Ngelese appealed to all the parents to enroll their children to schools, adding that the operation would continue and they would also start arresting parents who allegedly fail to send their children to schools.
Innocent Nyamwiza, a resident of Kizungu cell, commended the operation, arguing some men had allegedly abandoned their responsibilities to women after failing to pay school fees.
Nyamwiza appealed to the government to start arresting men who spend their morning hours in bars drinking alcohol.
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