By Gibao Brima

Residents in Jagolo town in the Imperi Chiefdom, Bonthe District fourteen miles away from Sierra Rutile mines, have appealed to the government to open a secondary school in their community as their children continue to suffer to acquire secondary education in distant communities.

“After they have completed their primary school education in our village, they have to go all the way to Sierra Rutile, Bo or Moyamba to pursue their secondary education.

It has been a difficult situation for both of us as parents and our children over the years, given the biting economic situation we are facing to allow our kids live somewhere else without their parents or relatives,” the people stated.

Talking to cross section of the disillusioned parents and other members of the community, they said their children have been and still performing extremely well in National Primary School Examinations (NPSE) despite living in one of the remote or hard to reach communities, but still facing serious challenge due to lack of secondary school.

“It is really a difficult thing to send our children to distant places to further their secondary education not only for financial burden but importantly how to monitor them as most of their guardians do not take proper care of them for obvious reasons,” they stressed.

They referred to their children as their future, which is why they’re are calling on the government to let them have at least a Junior Secondary School in their community, noting that they cannot continue to have their children sent to far away communities to have secondary education.