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NYAGATARE — Barely months after Nyagatare district closed Collège Chrétien de Muvumba [CO.C.MU] over poor structures and failure to pay their staff, the former headmaster is accused of selling students’ reports.

Sources say the headmaster, John Munyandinda, who is currently on the run after the scam, targeted fees defaulters in an effort to share the spoils of the school.

The district decision to close the school late last year followed a sit-down strike by teachers after the school failed to pay their salaries. Before the closure however, the district temporarily took over management of the school to enable students complete their last semester.                

It was allegedly during this time that Munyandinda sold the reports after sensing that his job was no more.

A senior official from Communauté des Eglises Chrétiennes en Afrique, the Christian Ministry formerly funding the school, said he sold a number of third term reports to desperate students, especially funded by  FARG, seeking to join other schools.

 "I have evidence to implicate him in the sale of student’s reports at a cost of Frw10, 000 each. He made our school incur losses because many students exploited the situation to evade paying tuition arrears,” said Cesar Bahati the director of education at the Christian Ministry.

He said that his office has reported the matter to Nyagatare police.

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