Niamshe mwalimu akifika: Trouble as creditor camps at school principal’s office

Okonkwo was forced to open the door

• Creditors have haunted our school head, Mr Okonkwo out of his comfortable office
• The principal has adopted a number of strategies to evade the school’s creditors
• Many of the principal’s financial problems are self-inflicted. The man loves inflated projects

 “Meta Meta imesota,” Jezebel, our cook commented when Madam Magarita asked her why she was serving teachers ‘thin tea’. It had such little milk that one could see all the way to the bottom of the kettle. The failure by the Ministry of Education to release free secondary school funds had literally left the school in the red.

Creditors have haunted our school head, Mr Okonkwo out of his comfortable office. For much of second term, he has been dodging them. According to Schola, he was forced to take an emergency loan from Mwalimu National Sacco to ensure vital supplies like bread for students were not discontinued during the volatile second term. The school debt is said to be over 10 million shillings.