Porgera Secondary School in Enga province has closed down again indefinitely as of last week due to the continuous tribal fights between the Nomali and Aiyela clans, which has greatly affected life in the Porgera Valley.
Deputy Principal, Mr. Amos Amail said that with the issue at hand, there were opportunists taking advantage of the situation by vandalizing and stealing certain properties from the students and staff within the school.
“We all fled the school because there was nothing much we could do.Now that the school has been shut down, most of our students and staff have had to live with relatives and friends due to their homes being ransacked by these opportunists, whilst a few of our students have flown out of the province to look for a better school.”
The school has now arranged with other schools for the students to be transferred to those schools for studies, just for the time being until the situation ease down.
“We the school have arranged with our sister schools, including Kopen and Wabag Secondary schools, for the students to attend and continue their classes there so that they won’t have to be laid back with classes.”
It is compulsory that all grade ten and twelve students of Porgera Secondary must continue their classes as time is running out for them.
“As for the grade nines and elevens, the school can only cater for a few of them to be transferred to other schools due to spacing.”
Meanwhile, a plan will be put in place for a compulsory setting where the students can attend classes without disturbances come next year.