ARUA CITY LEADERS TO FORCE STREET CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL.

By Sunday Amandi

Arua.

Local leaders in Arua city are calling upon parents to send their children to school as the first term of the 2023 academic year is already ongoing. Many children of school age going still loiter in Arua city, and others do petty businesses like selling eggs and other things, when their colleagues are already learning.
But this issue may come to an end in the near future as the local leaders in the various wards in Arua city are having plans to make sure that, parents of these children take the responsibility of sending them to school.

Richard Matua, the Lc two chairman of Driwala ward confirms that, they shall have a meeting with the Lc one chairpersons to lay a strategy to deal with such kids, “We shall have a meeting with all the chairmen to lay a strategy to ensure that, parents send these children to school,”Matua said.
Muzamil Mursal Ijaga, the chairman of Tanganyika ward says, they will deal with the children who are loitering within their homes as council is having a plan for those who are selling in the streets of the city,

Meanwhile, Santos Oria Gama, the chairman of Alivu ward calls upon parents to send their children to school, as education has become a basis of everything in the current world, “This time is not to joke with education, everything now needs education, and if you want your children to have a bright future, its better you send them to school,”Oria said.
The children doing businesses in the city are from the various parts of the city, and others are from the neighboring districts.