President’s donation is source of controversy

Dec 21, 2016 News

The sum of $1 million which was handed over to a Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of the Kwakwani Nursery School, Region Ten, by President David Granger is the source of controversy.

RDC Councilor, Sandra Adams

During the recent Regional Democratic Council monthly statutory meeting, Councillor Sandra Adams noted that members of the PTA are at ‘war’ over the money. They accused the council of failing as a council to complete infrastructural works at the school.
“I felt bad as a Regional representative to know all year we have been talking about these very issues in schools and were told that they are being looked at, that the Works Department went up there and is taking care of these things.
“Now here it is a group of parents took pictures and listed all the complaints and the President out of his good heart because of his interest in education gave them one million dollars. Coming out of that now is another issue where there is war over the (money) in Kwakwani…. Who must spend it? Who want to do this, who want to do that?”
Councillor Adams said that if the Regional Administration had taken its responsibility seriously parents would not have had the need to seek an audience with the President.
“This is something that we have been talking about all year and it made me feel bad as a councillor… I don’t mind if the PTA go on something else. That would make sense, but not on issues that we would have been talking about for the entire year.
I’m sure that every minute of the RDC would show we’ve been talking about schools and infrastructure. So I think we need to address these things.”
On the other hand Regional Chairman, Renis Morian, said that there is an uncertainty of whether the group who approached the President is actually members of the existing PTA.
“I got a call from the school that most of the people who went to the President weren’t PTA people; that the real PTA was still in Kwakwani and that the President didn’t know that. But when he comes I’m going to give him the names of the people who went and the names of the real people who is part of the PTA.”

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