Police at Outjo have confirmed a stabbing at a local high school on Wednesday morning.
The Police also reported that the boys’ parents were called in and had chosen to resolve the matter amicably and without legal repercussions. Principal of the Outjo Secondary School, Analine Venter, told The Namibian that the case involved two Grade 9 pupils.”They were coming down the stairs and one boy bumped the other one and he took out a knife and stabbed him in the back.We took them and some of the students that witnessed the incident to the Police station and the parents were also called in,” expounded Venter.She also said that a head of department accompanied the pupils to the Police station and reported that the parents had chosen to resolve the matter and that no charges would be laid.Venter expressed concern at the violence with which the boy retaliated and said that he generally possessed all the elements of a discipline problem.”No one is allowed to carry weapons in the school and this is something we are going to have to look into in the future.The boy who stabbed the other one is currently on suspension and in three days his parents will have to come in and sit before a disciplinary committee.The school views this matter in a very serious light and it can lead to his expulsion,” she said.Venter told The Namibian that incidents of this nature were few and far between.However, according to Chief Inspector Amulungu, a similar incident had taken place at the school just last month.”Last month three boys were arrested for fighting at the hostel of that same school.They were kicked out of the hostel and charged with trespassing, assault through threatening and crimen injuria.They have since been expelled from the school and they were also fined N$250.”Amulungu attributes these incidents to the change youths undergo as they stagger into adolescence.”They are going through a very difficult time because when you look at the ages of the kids concerned you see that they are now leaving childhood and entering adulthood.Maybe there are disciplinary issues at school or there is no control where they come from.There is no clear-cut solution – society and the community must come together to research the causes of these problems,” Amulungu said.Principal of the Outjo Secondary School, Analine Venter, told The Namibian that the case involved two Grade 9 pupils.”They were coming down the stairs and one boy bumped the other one and he took out a knife and stabbed him in the back.We took them and some of the students that witnessed the incident to the Police station and the parents were also called in,” expounded Venter.She also said that a head of department accompanied the pupils to the Police station and reported that the parents had chosen to resolve the matter and that no charges would be laid.Venter expressed concern at the violence with which the boy retaliated and said that he generally possessed all the elements of a discipline problem.”No one is allowed to carry weapons in the school and this is something we are going to have to look into in the future.The boy who stabbed the other one is currently on suspension and in three days his parents will have to come in and sit before a disciplinary committee.The school views this matter in a very serious light and it can lead to his expulsion,” she said.Venter told The Namibian that incidents of this nature were few and far between.However, according to Chief Inspector Amulungu, a similar incident had taken place at the school just last month.”Last month three boys were arrested for fighting at the hostel of that same school.They were kicked out of the hostel and charged with trespassing, assault through threatening and crimen injuria.They have since been expelled from the school and they were also fined N$250.”Amulungu attributes these incidents to the change youths undergo as they stagger into adolescence.”They are going through a very difficult time because when you look at the ages of the kids concerned you see that they are now leaving childhood and entering adulthood.Maybe there are disciplinary issues at school or there is no control where they come from.There is no clear-cut solution – society and the community must come together to research the causes of these problems,” Amulungu said.
