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Kigezi High School students clash over trousers, suspended
Students of Kigezi high school have lunch in the dining. File photo
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According to Mr Twinomujuni, the students were given an indefinite suspension and were expected to leave school premises by Thursday morning. However, the students claim they did not receive letters indicating so
All senior three, four, five and six male students of Kigezi High School have been suspended following Wednesday violent clashes over the decision by O-level students to wear trousers.
The school head teacher, Mr Benon Twinomujuni decided to send the violent students home after consultation with Kabale district security officials.
According to Mr Twinomujuni, the students were given an indefinite suspension and were expected to leave school premises by Thursday morning. However, the students claim they did not receive letters indicating so.
The Kabale District Police Commander, Mr Bosco Arop said the students had become too violent and a danger to themselves, adding that they attacked a security guard who mans the gate to the boys dormitories.
Mr Arop said he was unhappy to learn that students in senior four and senior six played the leading role in the clashes yet they are candidates expecting to start their final exams soon.
Traditionally O-Level students at Kigezi High School put on khaki shorts and white short-sleeved shirts while A-Level students put on black trousers and long-sleeved white shirts.
However, the school gives out a pair of shorts and one black trouser to O-Level students while A-Level students get two black trousers. But A-level students went on strike protesting the provision of black trousers to students in lower classes.
At around 11:00am on Wednesday a group of A-Level students armed with sticks allegedly moved in to force the O-level students to remove the black trousers which they had chosen to wear. Ten students were reportedly injured in the scuffle and this triggered off the strike.
O-Level students then mobilized themselves and launched a retaliatory strike that escalated into full scale fighting on the campus.
Mr Twinomujuni explained that attempts to reconcile the warring students were futile, prompting the school management to send all the male students in the four classes home
