Regional Education Officer of Region Six Shafiran Bhajan has said that the regional administration had dispatched workers to address the situation at the Mibikuri Primary School, immediately after receiving complaints.
Bhajan, in a press release, said that “immediately after news of the stench of floodwaters reached the Department of Education on February 22, 2011 a team from the Works Department was dispatched to the school by the Regional Chairman [Zulfikar Mustapha].” According to the release, no leakage to the septic tank was found but flies and maggots under the damp grass in the school yard were discovered.
A parent had told this newspaper that an overflowing septic tank was responsible for the flies and maggots, while the flooded