Police have issued summons to one Justus Mukiibi, a teacher at Premier Secondary School in Hoima City i for allegedly assaulting a senior two student.
His alleged victim Joan Nyangoma accuses the teacher of deliberately beating her during an entrepreneurship examination on March 17, 2023, for talking during the test. Nyangoma alleges that Mukiibi slapped her several times and locked her in an office where he continued to assault her.
She further states that she sustained multiple injuries and was taken to Jobita Medical Centre in Hoima City for medical attention, where she was examined and found to have been assaulted on her back, both hands, and chest.
Julius Hakiza, the Albertine region police spokesperson says that police summoned the accused teacher to record a statement, but he did not show up.
“This case was reported and the matter is under investigation, the teacher was summoned to give us the facts on this case so the matter is under inquiry but we need to investigate if this girl was badly beaten as she claims. We shall get facts from the teacher and witnesses because there were students in class during the incident.” says Hakiza
The assault case has been registered under SD Ref 60/17/03/2023. The school resident director, Moses Mugisa, declined to comment on the matter while the school director, Princess Diana Mugenyi couldn’t be reached.
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