Students Mark Five Teachers For Death

Bokamoso Junior School PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Bokamoso Junior School PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

Five teachers at Bokamoso Junior Secondary School in Gaborone have been marked for death and the perpetrators have started counting the corpses after the first of their five targets was buried recently after perishing in a freak road accident. Her name has since been crossed out as the counting continues.

The five names of the teachers marked for death are written on the entrance of the boys’ public toilets and the late teacher’s name has already been crossed out, an incident that has left both students and teachers at the school  horrified. On  Saturday the  school called  a meeting with parents where the issue cropped up.

The  leadership has  also acted by reporting the unusual incident to the nearby Urban Police station  to come and investigate  who could be behind the hit list, after attempts by the school to  do so hit a blank, after some teachers apparently  expressed fear of being added into the hit list.

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