SLMC Principal Appeals to Education Minister

The Principal of the Sierra Leone Muslim Community Secondary School at Low Cost site 2, Ibrahim Sorie Sesay, is urgently appealing to the Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Dr. Minkailu Bah (in photo), to speedily facilitate the approval of the school to reduce the administration’s financial burden of running the school.

In an interview with Sierra Express, the Principal noted that tremendous strides had been made by the Sierra Leone Muslim Community Agency in the fight to bring education to the doors of over three hundred and five (305) junior secondary school pupils presently accommodated in a two storey building that was constructed by SLMC at Low Cost Site 2. As a private community school, he went on, it was established in 2009 and started with the junior secondary and extended to the senior secondary school due to the resounding performance of the candidates who sat to the Basic Education Certificates Examination (BECE). The principal also noted that in 2012/2013, seventy-eight candidates sat to the BECE and seventy (70) passed in five (5) subjects and above with the best student scoring aggregate fourteen (14). In 2013/14, the principal said one hundred and three (103) candidates sat to the Basic Education Certificates Examination (BECE) and eighty-five (85) clearly passed in five (5) subjects and above with the best scoring aggregate seventeen (17). “These remarkable successes scored by the pupils forced the administration to open a private Senior Secondary School”, Mr. Sesay informed.

However, the principal said, the school is currently facing serious constraints, pointing out that as a creeping institution, the school administration relies heavily on the meager school fees to pay the salary of fourteen (14) trained and qualified teachers, to procure learning materials, pay auxiliary staff and organize games and sports.

By Charles F. Davies

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