Jonglei teacher arrested for complaining of pay cuts and regular
impregnation of school girls
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July 26, 2011 (BOR)- A primary school teacher was arrested in Bor, on
Monday 18 July after told state radio station that he had resigned due
to low pay, unnecessary pay cuts and the regular impregnation of
school girls by some teachers in the state.
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Bor mixed public primary school in Jongeli state (ST - File)
The teacher, Mr. Jok Marial, was arrested and is being held in jail on
charges of defamation in relation to the allegations of sexual
impropriety by teacher in Jonglei.
Mr. Marial said there was a poor atmosphere at educational
institutions in the state which was not conducive to learning with no
prospects of promotion for teachers. He said that there was a poor
social relationship between teachers at his school and that pay cuts
from the ministry of education and low payment made him resigned.
The inspector of Bor primary schools Panchol Anyang ordered Marial to
be arrest for abusing the education system, and defaming teachers in
the state by saying that some had sexual relations with their students
on public radio.
He said the salaries given to all teachers are designed from the
federal government in Juba and not from the state government.
Anyang said he will take Marial court to justify his claims but has
not done since the case arose last week. According to Marial this is
because the inspector fears losing the case.
Since he made his accusations Marial said he has been insulted by some
of teachers who were angry that he accused some of them of getting
their female students pregnant.
Girls education in the state has been severely affected by the
practice or early and forced marriages, which means they do not get to
finish school. The culture of paying large dowries in cows is often
seen as an incentive to find husbands for young girls.
The need to pay a dowry in order to get married is also said to be one
of the causes of cattle raiding in Jonglei and other parts of newly
independent South Sudan.
In the three girls boarding schools in Jonglei, the number of girls
sitting for primary examinations is very low as many girls are forced
to drop out if there parents demand they get married of the boyfriends
get them pregnant.
Anyuei girl primary school closed in Bor due to food shortage
Anyuei, one of the common girl schools in Bor has been reportedly
closed as it was unable to feed its over 400 pupils.
Ajah Majok, one of the girls at Anyuei primary came to the state
capital, Bor, last Saturday to complains about the closure of school
and urge the government to act quickly to provide food so the school
could be reopened.
“We are not happy with the closure of our school. The government
always talks of 25 percent to women, if Anyuei girl school is closed
then where are they going to get the 25 percent from?”, Ajak said.
In the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, between Southern rebels and
the Khartoum government, South Sudan said that 25 percent of
government positions should be taken up by women.
According to the Mr. Mayol John Panchol, one of the teachers at
Anyuei, the school had been receiving food aids from Join Aids
Management (JAM), a South African non-profit organization which has
been them at least 9 bags of sorghum and some tins of oil to
supplement the main supply from Catholic Relief Services. Both groups
stopped supplying the school earlier this year.
Many schools that were getting food aid from these organisations are
now facing the same problems.
(ST)
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