By Staff Reporter


One of the country’s top private schools, Maranatha Academy has turned down reports making rounds on social media that some students at the school are sick.

The institution has described the reports in circulation as a move by some anonymous people trying to damage its image.

In a statement 247 Malawi News has seen, the school’s Head Teacher Aaron Banda has indicated that the information was shared by some unknown people in a Facebook post.

Says Banda in a statement “On 25th January, 2023, some unknown people started circulating false information about students of Maranatha Girls Academy.

“In a Facebook post by Sheilla Favoured Banda, it is alleged that about ten students at Maranatha Girls Academy are opening bowels and vomiting.

“The Facebook post also appealed to parents to go and visit their wards at Maranatha Girls Academy in Machinjiri.”

Banda has however, disowned the reports saying since schools opened on 17th January, 2023, the Academy has not registered any case of bowel opening or vomiting.

He has since advised parents and guardians to disregard the false information circulating in various social media platforms.

Banda added that the school instituted a Task Force on Cholera Outbreak to strictly monitor and implement all cholera preventive measures at the school.

The school has therefore offered a K500, 000.00 fee to anyone who might help in tracking those behind the publication of the alleged false information.