A section of traders in Soroti City East Division under their umbrella popularly known as Soroti at heart, have expressed disappointment to their Member of Parliament Herbert Edmund Ariko for ignoring the wrangle between Moru-apesur Primary School and the squatters claiming huge land.
The School is currently at higher risk of losing over 75 plots of land including the playground to the group of individuals claiming.
Mr. Moses Ecuru the P.T.A Chairman said that the school is highly vulnerable to the City tycoons conniving with a section of city staff to part with the School land.
“The School has continued receiving threats from those encroaching land, they now claim a total of 75 plots including the playground. It has beaten our minds on how these people acquired the land titled to the school.” he said.
On Saturday 6th April 2024, a community Barraza was held by the Soroti City Woman Mp Joan Alobo Achom at the school to probe the loss of over 75 plots of land belonging to Moru -apesur primary School, a government school located in Kigandani Cell, Moru apesur Ward in Soroti City East.
The residents and school neighborhoods testified that the land in contention truly belongs to Moruapesur Primary School right from its inception.
Soroti at heart, pressure group are thrilled by the silence of the area top leader Herbert Edmund Ariko whose residence is closely neighboring the school in Moru-apesur ward.
Mr. Tom Ewoku the Soroti at Heart Chairman said that Mr. Ariko should join other leaders in securing the school land from those invading.
“The issue of Moru-apesur Primary School land should not be ignored and left to the school alone, it is the duty of our leaders to ensure that they jointly gang with public and have it resolved for once,” he said.
Adding,”We want to draw this matter to the attention of parliament before it turns bloody.”
Mr. Ariko is blamed for shifting his attention to Gweri County where he has left a gap in his Soroti City East Division.
Moru- apesur Primary School is among the several schools in the region victimized by illegally losing huge land to the encroachers.
Moru -apesur Primary School was founded in the year 1990 by the late Cuthbert Joseph Obwangor, the Former Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs of Uganda in the government of Apollo Milton Obote.
The School later started operating in June 1991 with an aim of providing education to thousands of the internally displaced children of Teso Sub – region who had settled at different suburbs of Soroti during the LRA versus the UPA insurgency from early 1986 up to the early 2000’s
