KABALE, UGANDA: Police in Kabale have arrested the Kabale Institute of Health Sciences Principal, Bruno Agaba accusing him of failing to register eight students with the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Examinations Board- UNMEB to sit for the Examinations.
According to the Kabale Resident District Commissioner Godfrey Nyakahuma who ordered for the arrest, the Institute Director, Mr Melvin Mpambara and the principal Mr Agaba were summoned to explain the circumstances under which the eight students missed on the list of those to sit for the final examination yet they cleared the full tuition that includes the examination fees.
Nyakahuma said that the order to arrest the Principal came as a result of the failure of the Director to respond to summons from Deputy Resident Commissioner Andrew Ronald Bakak.
Subsequently, Agaba was picked up by police from the institution in Kabale Municipality and when asked about the whereabouts of the money, he responded that all the monies collected at the institution are deposited in the individual account of Mpambara.
Nyakahuma said that Agaba and Mpambara have been given up by tomorrow to have explained the whereabouts of the money and registered the students or risk prosecution.
Bridget Kyokusiima, one of the affected students said that they were told by the principal to have paid 75 per cent of the tuition in order for them to be registered with UNMEB and later told to pay full tuition to be registered.
She added that on top of the full tuition, they were told to pay 200,000 shillings as late registration fees which were also cleared but they were surprised not to find the names of eligible students to sit for examinations on 12th June this year.
Efforts to get a comment from the Director Mr Mpambara were futile because he could not be traced in his at the institute nor accessing his telephone contacts.
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