Thank you Ismail to have raised this important step to bring to light what
actually is on the ground. Recently one of my brother's son was in Ombaci and
brought to study here in Kampala but was given a lower class than the reality
as he could not express himself and pass the entrance examinations well
something which was not the case in those days. A student from Ombaci those
days would earn automatic promotion to the next class in another School.
This made me to ask, is this the Ombaci we knew of those days or something
different?
One major problem with our leaders at all levels is pretending not to know that
every place has a history that must be kept and corrected ASAP if its a wrong
thing. I will live to remember Late Abiriga when he was a no nonsence person
when it comes to academics, teasing us in senior One our names are written in
pencil and the moonsoon winds will blow those busters who fail 'njuka' finals
(Senior One), how he used to personally chase villagers who reported to him his
students are finishing their mangoes during that never forgeting famine of 1989
when we had just joined the School, when he used to clash with Ekanya ( Brother
John) who prefered to feed his pigs with rotten mangoes than hungry student,
when he dismissed one of our teachers in whose subject the least scored Marks
was 75% that it will make students relax instead of assuming to have known the
subjects, when he used to stand just infront of his office looking at students
with foot-wears falling
as everyone took to heels to avoid punishments of staying beyond break time
and prep time, how he used to handle teachers at all levels in case of not
teaching including confidential roll calls for teachers he would personally
supervise and handle culprits accordingly without fear or favour, when he would
reward teachers in whose subjects students excell in UNEB both 'O' and 'A'
levels, those days we used to have the best performing students all over Uganda
from St. Josepph's College Ombaci, when prominent politicians would send their
children to Ombaci but would not tolerate what actually is not ground due to
nutritious bean weevils and enyasa they were not used to , when very many
students would join the University for medicine, all types of Engineering and
uncountable Arts related courses all on government sponsorship, some of the
prominent medical docotors in West Nile and Uganda at large in some of whose
hand Lt. Abiriga took his last breath in
this world..........RIP!!!, our beloved Nyax of Radio Pacis and the list is
endless, When he would not allow students to be stopped from boiling
concentrated coffee and tea in 'JIKO' with metallic cups for long studies
using the firewood for the school and culprits splitting firewood as
punishments, when the candidate classes were specially fed with special diets
from one month into the examination periods in order to reduce the protruding
zygomatic bones due to too much reading and little food in order to have good
concentrating capacity.
I have really taken time to express few of this issues to bring forward that
any good leader must know how things were being done in the past, present and
possibly future. For a leader to think he can do with a clique of few, that
will never be the spirit for our beloved School. We need team work and hard
work to be in place and if somebody thinks he can have our beautiful office run
in the suit case and from phone, that one should go!!!! When shall we have
first grades of 69++++ with the rest all with super aggregades again???? In
down country teachers are treated with respect and they own the students and
even call particular parents for finding a way forward if a student has
weaknesses in some subjects for private coaching at the parents expenses and
are more than willing to pay and improve on the performance of their children
and parents have regular meetings in these best performing schools here in down
country.
Divisions in Administration and student community is not a good sign for our
school if its to come up. Leaders who think manipulating few PTA and BOG
members for selfish interest must not be given a chance, they must go. Somebody
needs to remind me in the last academic year 2010-2011 how many students joined
Makerere University on government sponsorship from Ombaci and the greater West
Nile at large??????? We need the team work which Late Abiriga planted back
among the teaching staff, non-teaching staff, entire student body, the
neighbourhood and all the stake holders who directly or indirectly contribute
to the good running of the school. If anybody is seen as an obstacle to this
condusive teamwork leading to good performance, he should be shown the exit.
Can the OBs representative to the board be clear on that? We need the glory of
Ombaci back even if it will take time.........
Ombacia kwenyu....yaaahhh.....
Eric
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From: banduga ismail <[email protected]>
To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 1 February 2012, 10:16
Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Our Schools, performances and management
Dear all,
Recently we show the departure of one of celebrated education managers, late
Abiriga. We are all aware that from since he tired, the standard and
performance of that school (st. Josephs' College, Ombachi) has been
deterioting. This to me, and I believe to many of you clearly shows the
relationship between good management/administration and performance (academics,
behavior, morals).
When his successor, Mr. Juruga Augustine also retired, the Ministry did not
send a substantive head teacher to the school. Two deputies were instead sent
there by the Ministry. On the wisdom of the then BOG, one of the two deputies,
Mr. Akuma was then appointed as the head teacher. Many of us have been
following up events in the school and have discussed some of the negative
points either on this forum or in phone in view of finding corrective measures.
Some of the pronounced shortcomings of Mr. Akuma as noted by many including the
teachers in the school have been the following:
1. Establishing, sustaining and working through a clique - it is
reported that he has established a clique from among the teachers and visibly
prefers to work through this clique. This has created an environment of
suspicion among the teachers.
2. Being conspicuously absent from school most of the time - it is
reported that he is not at school most of the time and seems to have frozen the
working of systems during his absence. This is exemplified by incidences where
nothing moves when he is absent and when the deputies or other heads of
departments initiate any transactions (financial or non financial), it
is challenged by some of the executors, notably the bursar, caterer etc
3. Not cooperating with his deputy head teacher and other heads of
departments - it is reported that the deputy head teacher, posted by the
Ministry is very frustrtrated and contemplating seeking transfer way from
Ombachi due to the poor working relationship between him and the Mr. Akuma.
In the recent transfer announcements by the ministry, Akuma has been transfered
to some school in Lango region. I am told he is working out ways of reversing
the transfer and is using some BOG and PTA members to do that. As OBs, Parents
and wellwishers, we have representation in those bodies and have a stake in
what happens in the school. Members of this forum are working hard to ensure
performance of our schools improve sooner than later. With the shortcomings
noted of Mr. Akuma above, I do not think it is wise for us to keep quite and
let him do what he wants to do to remain a head teacher or deputy in the
school, hence my thoughts. I would like Akile, the OBs representative on BOG
and the executive of the OBs association to take this matter seriously. It is
better Akuma is out of Ombachi if our dream to see sanity and high performance
is to be realized. This is my take. What do you say?
Ismail
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From: Charles Dra-ecabo <[email protected]>
To: West Nile <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 16:27
Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Death Announcement!
This is very tragic and sad indeed. May the good Lord give the family of the
deceased strength and comfort them during this difficult moment and may the
soul of little angel RIP.
Charles
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:11:11 -0800
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Death Announcement!
This is really sad indeed,any other arrangements in Kampala will be posted
ASAP,May Lord rest her soul in eternal peace
--- On Tue, 1/31/12, aggrey adrale <[email protected]> wrote:
>From: aggrey adrale <[email protected]>
>Subject: [WestNileNet] Death Announcement!
>To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]>
>Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 12:04 AM
>
>
>Dear Members,
>
>On a sad note, I have just received a call from Ms. Doris Adebo (Okua) from
>India that their daughter, Aleni Freda, passed on having been flown there for
>a heart surgery.
>
>Prayers, words of encouragement and any support to the family are very much
>needed at this time as the family is struggling with arrangements to transport
>the body from India to Uganda.
>
>Doris can be reached on +918586892883.
>
>Any developments will be posted on this net.
>
>May her soul rest in eternal peace.
>
>Aggrey Adrale
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