July 2, 2021
BY PROBLYN JOHN ALPHA
At least two schools in the municipality of Koidu have been allegedly vandalized by unknown thieves over the weekend. The two schools that were vandalized include: The Municipal Secondary School and that of the Kono District Education Committee (KDEC) School at Koeyor in Koidu city.
According to report, at least five metal doors including other school materials worth millions of Leones were carted away by the unknown thieves.
Kai Denis Alpha is the Head Teacher of KDEC Primary school at Koeyor in Koidu city, he outlined the following stolen school materials to our correspondent in an exclusive interview: One metal door, text books, drinking and veronica buckets, solar guide, metal gate to name but a few noting that it is a usual habit for thieves to break in the said school and cart away school materials worth millions of Leones.
In a sad mood, the head teacher of the KDEC Primary School Koeyor told our correspondent that the frequent theft cases have seriously disturbed the smooth running of his school and therefore implored all to serve as watch dogs in order to put an end to the reported menace.
On his part, the Vice Principal of the Municipal Secondary School Emmanuel Tamba Matturie foremost described the reported theft as unfortunate as he is expecting some members of the school community to have aided and abated the unknown thieves, when the school security took excuse to attend to a funeral ceremony outside the municipality of Koidu.
In a separate development, the Independent Media Commission (IMC) is to organize a day consultative workshop on the draft IMC media code of practice in Kono District. According to the commission, the current media code of practice is now obsolete taking into consideration the Independent Media Commission Act 2020. Meanwhile, it is owing to this backdrop that the BBC Media Action is supporting the formulation of the new Media Code of Practice that is in line with the New Act. The would be participants of the pending workshop include: Traditional leaders, the Security sector, civil society groups, religious leaders, youths and women groups and media practitioners so that their inputs could be gathered and possibly feature in the new media code of practice. The workshop is a nationwide session to be held in Kono District.