Gay sex web hits Mzuzu school
Mzuzu Government Secondary School has asked a student and a cook to voluntarily leave the institution after being implicated in a same-sex web reportedly sprawling at the school.
Questions and uncertainty have been lingering over the pair’s purported homosexual escapades for two weeks since some students reported them to the school management after allegedly declining to be lured into gay sexual relationships.
The Nation has learnt that deputy head teacher Fides Msowoya, two weeks ago, summoned the Form Four boy (name withheld because he is a minor and asked him about the rampant allegations that he was sleeping around with fellow boys.
Msowoya, who has been pushed by both teachers and students to advise the student to freely pull out of school to avoid being either stigmatised or mobbed by his critics, could neither deny nor confirm the revelations.
However, a number of teachers have corroborated reports that the boy departed from school three days early after being asked to step aside following confessions that he has been sleeping with fellow males since he was in Standard Five.
The concerned students also pointed to cook Gilbert Nyasulu, alleging that he entices the schoolboys with promises of better food and takes them home where he is said to sleep with them when his wife and children retire to bed following a marathon of movies.
The cook, who described himself as a Christian and a family man, said the deputy head teacher is best placed to take media inquiries into the issue which has left a lot of tongues wagging.
In a separate interview, a Mr Longwe, the deputy head teacher responsible for academics, confirmed the school was handling the complaints involving the student and the cook.
The undertones of the gay sex web at the school came to light shortly after police in Lilongwe arrested Cuthbert Kulemera, 19, and Kelvin Gonani, 33, on suspicion of having carnal knowledge of each other.
The detention of the Area 25 couple left government on the crash course with donor countries, with US Ambassador Virginia Palmer publicly demanding their immediate release and accusing Malawi of backtracking on commitments towards safeguarding minority rights.
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Samuel Tembenu later issued a statement that freed the two suspects. n
