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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU
ARUA CITY: FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025
To uplift the standard of learning in order to catch up with the Arua central division, senior examiners from Ayivu division have created an examination board so as to ensure proper assessment of the learners.
Although part of the city, Ayivu division comprising Ayivu East and Ayivu West Constituencies is still rural in setup and the schools there face unique challenges that put learners at more disadvantage than their central division counterpart.
Samuel Andu, the head of the board said they should have grown in stature by now but their activities were hampered by politics.
‘The 99% of these people are senior examiners with the Uganda National Examinations Board. We want them to utilize their skills,” he told the former Member of Parliament Bernard Atiku.
Andu said they had invited the former MP who is plotting a return to Parliament because he has a track record of supporting education programs in Ayivu.
While addressing the examiners at Ediofe Boys Primary school on Friday, Atiku said he would wait for a formal document from the examiners detailing what they want to do and the resources required so that he can determine how to support it.
“In my first term as an MP I paid the Visio Group sh100m to promote education in Ayivu County. I initiated Ayivu education promotion fund and some of the students who m the fund supported are now engineers, doctors and even politicians,” he told the cheerful gathering.
He pledged that for purposes of education of the children, his efforts will not be limited to Ayivu West but will cover the entire Ayivu as it was in the previous times.
Atiku emphasized that examination is a progressive measurement of the intellectual growth and performance of both pupils and teachers that any initiative to make it a routine assessment would always receive his supp
