May 21, 2021
By Aruna Kamara in Bo
One of the Bus Drivers for the Free and Quality Education School Buses No.22, Braima Bailor said that he had to run to the Bo Police Station with the Bus in order to save his life and for the school bus not to be vandalized by the Pupils of the United Brethen in Christ (UBC). The pupils reportedly pelted the bus with a hail of rock.
Speaking to this medium at the Bo Police Station, the school bus driver said that he parked the bus at the UBC School gate along Prince Williams Street in Bo in order for the pupils of the said school to disembark.
According to Bailor, when the pupils alighted from the bus he was about to move when the remaining pupils in the bus, whom majority of them where pupils of the Methodist High School in Bo, raised an alarm that the UBC pupils are pelting stone at the bus.
He said that he had to hastily start the bus and drove to the Police Station in order to save his life and the lives of the other pupils in the bus.
Mr. Bailor claimed that the UBC pupils’ action damaged one side of the bus and he has reported the matter to the Bo Police.
The pupils on the bus told this medium that they saw the UBC pupils with objects including stone and pelted it at the bus with the intension to damage us on the Bus, and this made some of them in the bus to throw objects at them.
Some pupils of the UBC however denied throwing stones at the school Bus but called on the police to investigate. They claimed that some of the school bus drivers have bad attitudes that they have been complaining about.
Some civil society activists have expressed their utter dissatisfaction and frustration at the misbehavior of the school pupils on the buses and urged the Bo City Council to join them embark on civic education in the schools to change the mindset of the pupils on the handling of the Bus.
They said that the bus drivers should also be engaged on how to comport themselves when they are at work, noting that the overloading of the school bus by the drivers is also a grave concern, with COVID 19 regulations not adhered to even during the height of COVID19 outbreak in Bo.