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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Education minister Janet Museveni\u2019s order to all school authorities to paint their buildings before reopening on March 1 has provoked reactions from school heads and owners.<\/p>\n

They say government is merely issuing directives that require funding, but without providing financial support.<\/p>\n

Ms Museveni argued that the schools need to look clean and attractive to the learners.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Try and paint all our schools both primary and secondary, including universities so that they look clean and attractive for our learners,\u201d Ms Museveni, who is also the First Lady, directed on Friday.<\/p>\n

Schools have been closed for almost a year now following the coronavirus outbreak with only candidate classes later allowed to reopen in October as government continued to assess the interventions to enable more classes come on board while observing the standard operation procedures aimed at controlling the virus spread.<\/p>\n

Stakeholders in the private sector yesterday warned government that their demands for reopening should be financially supplemented.<\/p>\n

Mr Hassadu Kirabira, the National Private Educational Institutions Association secretary in-charge of research, yesterday told Daily Monitor that the directive is luxurious to institutions which have been closed and can only be implemented with government support.<\/p>\n

Mr Kirabira said their concentration will be on paying teachers who have not been earning, clear the fixed bills for water and electricity and ensure they put in place the washing facilities<\/p>\n

\u201cSchools don\u2019t have the money. They are struggling to put up what government requires for the safety of the learners. Perhaps government can help us do that. It\u2019s not bad for government to offer this to the schools as their contribution to the Covid-19 relief. Painting a school now looks luxurious. We think priority should not be on non-health issues,\u201d Mr Kirabira said.<\/p>\n

Mr Patrick Kaboyo, the Federation of Non-State Education Institutions secretary, said: \u201cPainting schools will play a role of disinfection and bringing a new life to the school. But that should come along an incentive to have people borrow money at no cost. It should be an enabler to buy the paint. It is expensive if you have to paint 12 classrooms. Not all people have the resources. If you rank in priorities, painting is not part of them. Painting may be seen as a luxury but since it\u2019s a directive, you can implement it but with a helping hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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