Chris Ocowun
5 July 2009
Kampala — THE Amuru district executive committee has approved a by-law to imprison parents who fail to send their children to school to benefit from the universal primary and secondary education.
The parents will be jailed for six months or fined sh40,000 per child not sent to school.
Gilbert Olanya, the secretary for education, said the parents of over 300 children rounded up at Anaka IDP camp were fined sh5,000 per child.
Olanya told the parents and children that the by-law was for their own good. The children were rounded up in an operation conducted by the Police and local leaders.
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