Dadaya still a reputable school

Midlands Correspondent
DADAYA High School board chairman Dr Cephas Msipa has assured parents with children at the school that the mission school remains one of the best run and managed educational institution in the country. In an interview on Monday, Dr Msipa said Dadaya was a school with a history of achieving and attached importance to the safety of its pupils.

He dismissed reports of alleged acts of Satanism at the school, arguing that a female pupil who recently fell into a trance, acting as if possessed  while attending holiday Mathematics lessons, was in fact, not a pupil at  the school.

Dr Msipa said the holiday classes were not run by the school although the lessons were at its premises.
“As the chairman of Dadaya High School board we were disturbed by the reports in the media of alleged acts of Satanism at the school following an incident involving a girl attending holiday lessons,” he said.

Dr Msipa said the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) authorities hired Dadaya High School as a venue for conducting a workshop on how to improve the teaching of Mathematics at high schools.

He said during the workshop, pupils from different schools in the Midlands province attended as part of their holiday lessons.
“One of the pupils from a school in Chirumanzu is said to have fallen into a trance and appeared to have been possessed. The pupil was then stopped from attending lessons by Nust authorities who were the organisers of the programme and Dadaya had nothing to do with the incident.

“When the particular pupil was excluded, there was  no   emergency   meeting   which   was   called. If ever there was any such meeting, Dadaya High School was not part of it since the headmaster of the school, Mr Misheck Joseph Mangono, did not attend.

“Dadaya High School had no pupils attending the workshop and therefore the school has nothing to do with the whole incident,” said Dr Msipa.

He assured parents with children at Dadaya that the school was safe as the isolated “trance” incident had nothing to do with it.