Police in Gbarnga have arrested the
Principal of the James Dunbar Norris Elementary and Junior High School, a
private school situated in the Bassa Community in Gbarnga, for alleged misapplication of entrusted funds in the amount of over L$50,000.
The money was intended to pay the West
African Examination Council (WAEC) registration fees for 26 ninth
graders, according to the Commander of the Crime Services Division of
the Liberian National Police Bong County Detachment Inspector John
Kelenso Flomo.
Flomo said Principal Jacob Dolo has been charged with first degree felony and is expected to be sent to court for prosecution.
Speaking earlier to the Liberia News
Agency, County Education Officer Edward Kpulun said the Principal was
apprehended by police when distressed students thronged his office to
register their complaint.
The West African Examinations Council administered exams began on May 19 for 9th graders across the country.
Kpulun said previously Dolo had gone to
the resident District Education Officer for Gbarnga, Mrs. Lydia Cooper,
to serve as potter at one of the examination centers when the students
surrounded his (CEO) office to express their problems.
The CEO lauded the students and parents
for the bold step taken to seek the intervention of the Ministry of
Education and admonished them to refrain from acts that have the
propensity to undermine their case.
Principal Dolo admitted during police
investigation that he received the WAEC fess from the students, but
explained that the money was stolen in February while on his way to
Monrovia to register the students for the WAEC exams.
In an interview with LINA at the local
Education Office in Gbarnga, the students said they paid L$2,250 each as
WAEC fees to Principal Dolo.
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