What you need to know:
- Gefrey Juma Opala will be detained for 7 days to allow the police and prosecution to finalize on investigations
- He is being investigated for offense of negligence of duty as a pool attendant at Visa Oshwal Primary School.
A swimming coach at Visa Oshwal Gefrey Juma Opala will be detained for seven7 days to allow the police and prosecution to finalize on investigations.
When he was arraigned, the court was told that Opala was arrested yesterday for the suspicion of having committed an offense of negligence of duty as a pool attendant at Visa Oshwal Primary School.
”The respondent is believed to have neglected his official as a swimming pool attendant at Visa Oshwal Primary School where a body of a grade 2 pupil namely Abdi karim Ali aged 11 years was found dead in swimming pool,”reads the application
The court was told that Opala was captured on CCTV footage on duty when the deceased walked towards the swimming pool, and later, the body was discovered to have drawned in the swimming pool.
The court further was told that Opala intentionally neglected his duty to prevent the child who was captured on CCTV footage passing him and walked towards the pool.
“That the respondent after being pressed by the members of the family to state where the deceased was, he denied having seeing him and later he alleged tohave searched the swimming pool and recovered the body in the absence of the relatives and the school staff,”reads the application
