Omungwelume learners protest
Learners of Omungwelume Senior Secondary School say they are at risk of being taken advantage of by people who can provide them with accommodation and food.
The learners staged a demonstration on Friday, saying learners desperate for accommodation and food turn to private individuals, some of whom expect sexual favours in return.
They are demanding that a hostel be built at the school and that the school feeding programme be more inclusive.
They handed over a petition to the public prosecutor at the Omungwelume periodical magistrate''s court, Christina Masule.
“Our school doesn''t have a hostel, thus learners fall prey to devious men and women in order to survive.
“We also need the feeding programme to be extended to the Grade 11 and 12 learners with the hope that it will discourage learners from beneficial relationships which often result in cases like the one at hand,” the petition, read by Winnie Nanyeni, one of learners, said.
Masule promised the learners that she would forward their petition to the relevant authorities. Omungwelume SSS has 418 learners in Grades 8 to 12 of which over 300 are Grade 11 and 12 learners renting rooms in private homes at the settlement.
The learners also asked the court not to grant bail to Tuhafeni Nauyoma, who is accused of stabbing a Grade 11 learner at the school and is now being held at the Omungwelume police holding cells.
Nauyoma, 30, was said to be in a relationship with the 18-year-old girl.
He made his second court appearance on a charge of attempted murder at Omungwelume on Friday when chief magistrate Mika Namweya postponed the case to 17 November this year for further police investigations.
Namweya informed him of his right to launch a formal bail application.
Omungwelume settlement is situated in the Ohangwena Region''s Ongenga Constituency, some 30km north of Oshakati.
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The learners staged a demonstration on Friday, saying learners desperate for accommodation and food turn to private individuals, some of whom expect sexual favours in return.
They are demanding that a hostel be built at the school and that the school feeding programme be more inclusive.
They handed over a petition to the public prosecutor at the Omungwelume periodical magistrate''s court, Christina Masule.
“Our school doesn''t have a hostel, thus learners fall prey to devious men and women in order to survive.
“We also need the feeding programme to be extended to the Grade 11 and 12 learners with the hope that it will discourage learners from beneficial relationships which often result in cases like the one at hand,” the petition, read by Winnie Nanyeni, one of learners, said.
Masule promised the learners that she would forward their petition to the relevant authorities. Omungwelume SSS has 418 learners in Grades 8 to 12 of which over 300 are Grade 11 and 12 learners renting rooms in private homes at the settlement.
The learners also asked the court not to grant bail to Tuhafeni Nauyoma, who is accused of stabbing a Grade 11 learner at the school and is now being held at the Omungwelume police holding cells.
Nauyoma, 30, was said to be in a relationship with the 18-year-old girl.
He made his second court appearance on a charge of attempted murder at Omungwelume on Friday when chief magistrate Mika Namweya postponed the case to 17 November this year for further police investigations.
Namweya informed him of his right to launch a formal bail application.
Omungwelume settlement is situated in the Ohangwena Region''s Ongenga Constituency, some 30km north of Oshakati.
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