{"id":26290,"date":"2022-02-14T17:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=26290"},"modified":"2022-02-14T17:22:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T17:22:56","slug":"schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors","title":{"rendered":"Schools should install lightning arrestors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>On Friday last week, we published a story about authorities in Namutumba District asking all schools in the area to install lightning arrestors.<\/p>\n

The demand followed a report from the Office of the Prime Minister listing the district as one of those most prone to disasters such as lightning, hail storms and floods. (See Daily Monitor February 11, \u201cNamutumba pushes for lightning arrestors in schools.)<\/p>\n

The district chairperson, Mr David Mukisa, revealed that a total of eight schools are struck by lightning and that the district loses a lot of money renovating schools that have been struck by lightning, causing budget cuts on other departments.<\/p>\n

Namutumba is not the only district faced with lightning disasters due to the absence of lightning arrestors.<\/p>\n

In 2011, 19 pupils died and more than 51 were critically injured in Kiryandongo District when lightning hit Runyaanya Primary School, in Hoima, 14 students of St Andrea SS were rushed to Bujumbura Health Centre after they were struck by lightning. (See www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/education\/lightning-why-rural-schools-are-at-risk)<\/p>\n

In the story some of the district leaders said the schools didn\u2019t have funds to install lightning arrestors and those that had been installed were vandalised. Needless to mention, there have been many more recent cases of death and injury due to lightning.<\/p>\n

While it is a natural disaster that might not be under our control, there are ways to manage it and stay safe. One of those ways is by ensuring that schools have arrestors.<\/p>\n

It should be a requirement that is followed to the letter not as a \u2018by-the-way\u2019 that is mentioned when tragedy happens. After all, what is the point of striving to educate our children only for them to be struck by lightning at the very premises which they had gone to seek knowledge, especially since it is avoidable?<\/p>\n

Ensuring a safe environment for learners is one of the mandates of schools and institutions of learning. Therefore, the government, stakeholders, and any capable well-wishers should consider supporting or giving to this cause especially for rural schools that can\u2019t afford to install arrestors or find a solution to vandalism of the same .<\/p>\n

Yes, our schools may be riddled with a plethora of problems but necessities as basic as lightning arrestors shouldn\u2019t have to be one of them. And as is with other disasters, sensitisation on simple safety guidelines in regard to lightning is key. Learners, teachers, everyone should have basic safety knowledge when it comes to lightning and other potentially hazardous extreme weather conditions.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Uganda<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. On Friday last week, we published a story about authorities in Namutumba District asking all schools in the area to install lightning arrestors. The demand followed a report from the Office of the Prime Minister listing the district as one of those most prone to disasters such as lightning, hail storms and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":26289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-26290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"\nSchools should install lightning arrestors - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On Friday last week, we published a story about authorities in Namutumba District asking all schools in the area to inst ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Schools should install lightning arrestors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Friday last week, we published a story about authorities in Namutumba District asking all schools in the area to inst ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-14T17:25:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/02\/img-620a8fccec2ad.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Schools should install lightning arrestors\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-14T17:25:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors\"},\"wordCount\":434,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/02\/img-620a8fccec2ad.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors\",\"name\":\"Schools should install lightning arrestors - Uganda\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/02\/img-620a8fccec2ad.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-14T17:25:38+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"On Friday last week, we published a story about authorities in Namutumba District asking all schools in the area to inst ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/02\/img-620a8fccec2ad.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/02\/img-620a8fccec2ad.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":800,\"caption\":\"Schools should install lightning arrestors\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Schools should install lightning arrestors\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/\",\"name\":\"Uganda\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Schools should install lightning arrestors - Uganda","description":"On Friday last week, we published a story about authorities in Namutumba District asking all schools in the area to inst ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Schools should install lightning arrestors","og_description":"On Friday last week, we published a story about authorities in Namutumba District asking all schools in the area to inst ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors","og_site_name":"Uganda","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-02-14T17:25:38+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/02\/img-620a8fccec2ad.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Schools should install lightning arrestors","datePublished":"2022-02-14T17:25:38+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors"},"wordCount":434,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/02\/img-620a8fccec2ad.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Uganda","uganda"],"articleSection":["all news","community","homepage-english"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors","name":"Schools should install lightning arrestors - Uganda","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/02\/img-620a8fccec2ad.jpg","datePublished":"2022-02-14T17:25:38+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"On Friday last week, we published a story about authorities in Namutumba District asking all schools in the area to inst ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/02\/img-620a8fccec2ad.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/02\/img-620a8fccec2ad.jpg","width":1200,"height":800,"caption":"Schools should install lightning arrestors"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/schools-should-install-lightning-arrestors#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Schools should install lightning arrestors"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/","name":"Uganda","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}