The Milimani Law Court has issued an injunction prohibiting the chairperson of Makini’s Parents Teachers Association from making defamatory allegations about the school and its regional director, Horace Mpanza.
Milimani principal magistrate Sammy Aswani Opande ordered that the school and Mpanza’s application for inter partes hearing be served on the chairman on August 2. The parent, who is also the PTA chairman, will have 14 days to respond.
Mpanza claimed in a new suit filed in commercial court that the chairman convened a virtual meeting of the organization during which he uttered derogatory remarks about him and the institution.
According to Mpanza, the chairman’s statements have led people to assume that he is an impulsive person who physically confronts and abuses both parents and teachers and that Makini is a dangerous and hostile war zone where multiple people carry firearms in front of the pupils.
Mpanza believes that at the meeting, the man incited parents to take drastic measures against the school and Mpanza.
Some of the resolutions made include the school not increasing or varying school fees during the next two years and not dismissing any of its staff over the same time period.
According to Mpanza, these resolutions go above and beyond the PTA mandate and are designed to incite resentment.
“I am a person of integrity and I have never assaulted anyone and no one has ever lodged a complaint with the school claiming to have been assaulted by myself,” says Mpanza
He argues that the parent ought to know that he does not own a gun and has never owned a gun in his life and that he has never threatened to shoot any parent or students.
