Rev. Sitter Hellen Lamunu, head teacher at Sacred Heart Girls Secondary School, derided the tournament as marred by irregularity.
Hooligan took over the Y.Y Okot Girls Secondary School Cricket tournament events during the computation. Now, our school is heading to the regional event competition, representing the Acholi Sub-Region. Although we are putting in a lot, we are happy that we are introducing a co-curricular activity.
GULU CITY-SUNDAY APRIL. 19, 2026.
By Okumu Livingstone Langol, Our Correspondent.
Sunday April, 2026. Gulu City streets were colored by Sacred Heart Girls Secondary School, as student matches across Gulu City streets from Holy Rosary Catholic Parish, just 100 meters east of Gulu City outskirt, with School ban leading the march to celebrate cricket, basketball, and football wins.
Amono R. Nyero, 17 years old, is the Cricket Captain for Sacred Heart Girls Secondary School. She led her team that beat the Y.Y Okot Memorial Girls College team in the tournament that took place last Saturday, 12, in Kitgum district.
Amono, she is very excited for the win, says from our group, so far so good, we want to be the champion of the Crickets, we are not only ready for the regional competition. But, to be a winner for the National champion.
“Cricket used to be a game for men, but now we are ready to make it. My message for the girls is, don’t give up, God has given the talent for all mankind. For Cricket and Basketball, the challenges are the equipment,” she stressed.
Akello Patricia, 19 years old, she school captain Basket Ball; she is equally competitive. “Vowed to thrash their opponent, she argued that victory is not her first time; we started to win the game in 2022, and we are now the champions of basketball”
Angeyo Lona, the Scared Heart Girls Team Caprine for Football, is a fire brand, she Senior Six A-level candidate leading her team, and she promised to come back with a trope.
“We went to Y.Y Okot Memorial College, and we have beaten them. We are heading to face the next tournament, and we are ready to go to Tanzania”
Oryem Dennis, the school teacher in charge of sports activity, says the Sacred Heart Girls’ School have three teams, for Cricket, Basketball and Football teams. As we went to play a game, we learned from the other teams, and our school beat Y.Y Okot Memorial College. We are going to meet to present our team in Mukono.
We won three tournaments, although we still face challenges, our team lacks cricket and basketball equipment.
Sister Hellen Lamunu, the head Teacher who matched with the Girls from Sacred Heart, all the way during an interview in her office, says. Today, you look to the celebration that the Sacred Heart Girls Secondary School have deployed in Gulu City, the victory. As you know, our students won during the district in the regional, but in the district, they were not celebrated, but in the region, they were celebrated.
“With painstaking, you find your school beats a particular school, the next time they will not, you find what is wrong. Is there computation at the time you find a corruption syndicate taking root? Some students who are above 20 years old claimed that is the candidates sitting the “O” level, yet are already men who were forced to sit the Primary Living Certificate. Our girls are playing a game with women who are at the events they go to and milk their babies.” Sister Hellen Lamunu complained.
She insisted that our school won, and they will go and play regional at Seroma Christina High School in Mukono district. You find girls are good at our side circular activity. “I was good at Javelin, 100-meter runner and many others that is why I am appealing to the Ministry of Education and Sport.” Sister Lamunu reasoned.
The question was put to her, you head the association of head Teachers in Acholi Sub Region, what is wrong, and why the messes are like that/
Sister Hellen Lamunu, answer, it depends on the schools, some schools financially are not okay, for us, the Sacred Heart Girls’ school, we have our bus. For us, Sacred Heart, we have put UGX 10 million for each computation, but we don’t know from the other side.
Sister Hellen Lamunu decried the inconvenience because at Sacred Heart Girls School, sometimes you find that other teachers who we have dismissed from here become referees for the tournament, you find yourself wondering what would be next. They want our school to fail, and yet they are doing well.
What makes your school perform well?
Sister Hellen Lamunu revealed that through motivation, sometimes we cook meat and rice, and we give them some token, like money. But other schools do not have that privilege.
Now we are wondering, what kind of referee we are having, the big school like St Joseph’s Layibi College has been knocked out, and yet the school that qualified wants to quietly enlist students from St Joseph College Layibi. The problem starts from the Ministry of Education and Sport; we need them to scrutinise students from the ministry, not from schools.
“What happened, how the Sacred Heart Secondary School was beaten by the District Computation was madness, there are hooligans at the district level, now the Sacred Heart football and cricket, including basketball, won, do you think it’s not a big shame?” Sister Hellen won.”
Y.Y Okot Memorial College student Girls turned wild, after the Sacred Heart Girls beat them in all three tournaments, Basket Ball and Football. Instead, they blocked all the participants nit have meal at their school, and later they turned to sexual harassment, touching men’s manpower.
