Residents of Ruhija Sub County in Rubanda district on Saturday stormed the Rubanda district headquarters demanding that the district leadership rescinds the decision to construct a Shs. 1.6 Billion seed secondary school in the neighboring Nyamweru Sub County.

Led by their district Councillor Chris Ngabirano, the locals accused the LC5 chairman Kenneth Jogo Biryabarema of diverting the school project from Ruhija Sub County to Nyamweru Sub County.

The residents insist that Ruhija Sub County is a hard to reach area, and that students have to walk through a national park at odd hours, to go to school in neighboring sub counties, which endangers their lives.

These also expressed anger at their MP Eng. Denis Sabiti for neglecting them on this matter.

“We are citizens and we deserve the right to education. If our member of parliament is not with us, he’s against us and we will declare nonrepresentation,” they said.

According to Gerald Akambasa the Rubanda district speaker, during the last council session it was resolved unanimously that Nyamweru Sub County should be the first beneficiary of the World Bank funded seed school project.

The district chairman Biryabarema also emphasized that Nyamweru was given the first priority upon realization that it had no single secondary schoo