Violence within school campuses: Nalova Lyonga Urges Parents To Assist In Fighting Deviant Behaviours In Students

Prof Nalova Lyonga, Minister of Secondary Education has called on parents to play their role effective and assist her ministerial department in checking deviant behaviours among students so as to reduce the rate of violence within school campuses. 

Minister Nalova Lyonga of Secondary Education 

Nalova made the appeal during the just ended Youth Parliamentarian session while replying to questions from junior MPs from. 

While admitting that the problems could only be solve from a collective point of view, highlighted efforts made so far by her ministry in fighting drug consumption allegations of witchcraft and general rise in crime wave. 

“We have social problems we are looking into and a lot of this is taking our time away from academic problems. Academics is so much tied to social problems. If the student is not socially okay, the student will not be academically okay. To curb this phenomenon, MINESEC has done a lot. As you can see, we are having classes as if nothing had happened,” she explained, while calling on the junior MPs to collaborate with the ministry. 

She reiterated the need for need for stematic checks at school entrances, to ensure only students and staff are permitted to enter institutions, as well as avoid the use of dangerous equipment. 

“We have also done installation of surveillance cameras in schools…so far, we have installed 200 and that is not even enough. We are just scratching the surface. We thank some of the companies that are helping us in this and the government itself has given a lot of money for this to be realised,” she revealed.

The underscored the importance of sensitisation campaigns to the young ones so as to avoid been victims of violence by knowing where they go and when as well as urged schools to reinforced punishment of late coming rather than sending them away students to be roaming streets during school hours. 

She hinted that the ministry will soon implement the ‘Cashless schools’ system in order to minimise deviant behaviour by mitigating the use of money for dubious purposes such as gambling and buying of drugs during school hours.  

“Eventually, we will have a cashless school. When they want something, they will go and take it from the school. You don’t keep this money so that you go and buy drugs. All schools, must have canteens and all those traders selling by the side of the school should not be there. They should go to the market. Clean school must be observed. Come with MINESEC and we will go on with a clean school,” she explained.