MAUN: Maun Senior Secondary School (MSSS) was forced to close down following a spate of 'retaliatory' fires that razed blocks of classrooms. In the past two weeks, people purporting to be MSSS students torched classrooms and offices allegedly in order to pressurise authorities to fire male teachers 'engaging in love affairs' with female students.
On Monday night a bush near the school's premises was set ablaze by the arsonists who apparently eluded the police who guard the school 24 hours a day. This resulted in pandemonium as frightened students living in the school's hostels panicked. Batawana paramount chief, Kealetile Moremi, addressed students after a fire burned the second block saying the blocks were of historic importance. They were the first classrooms that were built by United Congregation Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA) in the 1970s, which owns the school. She said in her days as a student, she used one of the classrooms saying it disheartened her and Maun residents that a symbol of their history has gone up in smoke.
