Kgoroba decries sabotage

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | Tuesday October 18, 2016 18:36

 

He had promised the electorates during his campaign that the first item in his agenda was to offer the services.

Kgoroba told journalists yesterday during press briefing at Yarona country lodge that, “volunteers were contacted and were willing, but the snag came about when we requested assistance with public facilities. We were advised by school management to put our request through the Kweneng education regional office, which we obligingly did.

That was around March 2015, but to this day we have received neither positive nor negative response from the powers that be,” Kgoroba said.

The MP said the teachers were willing to offer their services, but due to logistical challenges of moving from their place of work to where they had been offered a facility, it would make their participation difficult if not impossible.

The other issue that the MP cried about is refusal by school management to meet them and some teachers.

“As area MP, I should be able to know the problems that they are facing. I am forced to rely on information that I am given by teachers through the back door. Some school heads had told me that their bosses are the ones who are refusing. Their regional officers had not granted them to do so,” he said.

He continued; “I hold no grudge against the headmasters of these schools. I very well understand that it is their jobs they are protecting . It is the instructions of their jobs they are protecting and it is the instructions of their master they are carrying out”.

The MP said in all the four primary schools in Mogoditshane, they have eight classes attending classes in open air, which means 32 classes are taught outside classrooms.  Kgoroba said the schools record 1,040 dropouts annually.

The MP said national crime statistics showed that Mogoditshane has the highest crime rate above all other villages in the country.

“The reasons are as follows; high numbers of school dropouts, poor education quality because of zero infrastructure, high influx rate from all over the country from people seeking greener pastures and high unemployed rate because our schools produce unemployable quality,” he said.