84% of the students selected to join the first form in 2023 for government schools in Biharamulo district have not reported to school, while the entire Kagera Region who reported to school for the first form is 46%.

As a result of this situation, the Minister of State, Office of the President, Regional Administration and Local Government (Tamisemi), Angellah Kairuki has asked leaders in Kagera region to look into the cause of the situation, while the government has reduced many things that were causing students to fail to report.

Through the working session of the evaluation of the implementation of the education strategy and the implementation of the action plan for the year 2023, led by the minister today, it showed that 63 percent of the students who were selected to join the first form in 2023 have not yet reported since the schools opened on January 9. this year.

He said Biharamulo District is the one that has the most students who have not reported, as it is 16 percent of children who arrived to start form one while 84 percent have not reported, followed by Missenyi District, which has 20 percent of those who have reported and Bukoba has 43 percent.

He has mentioned Muleba, Bukoba Municipality, Ngara, Kyerwa and Karagwe Districts as having exceeded 50 percent, but it is still not enough. Leaders should find the reason why those who are at home are doing what they are doing and why they have not come to school.

"Brother leaders, the government installed all the infrastructure for students, classes and desks, many of our schools currently have electricity and water, now what is the meaning of having all that and the students are not visible?

"If there are big obstacles you have placed on children, we ask that they be removed, the children should be received first, others will follow," said Kairuki.

He said the concept that the child will report within three months gives teachers a headache, but it also makes the child slow to keep up with his peers, so he lags behind academically, so that belief should not be stressed, instead leaders advise parents to let their children come to school and start studying.

Previously, the Regional Head of Kagera, Alberth Chalamila said 56,000 students were selected to join the first form in 2023 and those who reported were 27,000 children equal to 46 percent.

He also said that the region planned to enroll 86,000 children of primary school and those who arrived at school to start studies are 71,0000 children, while the first class children planned to be enrolled are 86,000 who arrived are 76,000 children.