Star of the Week: Mugisha preaches the gospel of cleanliness

Lycée de Kigali is one place where you will find students dressed smartly in their uniforms. As a result, it is easy to think that the school administration perhaps has a strict dress code which it implements to the letter.

Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Lycée de Kigali is one place where you will find students dressed smartly in their uniforms. As a result, it is easy to think that the school administration perhaps has a strict dress code which it implements to the letter.

Mugisha wants to become an engineer. (Pontian Kabeera)

However, when Education Times sought to find out the brain behind this noble achievement, it established that it was the prefectorial body. In fact to be more specific, students single out Derrick Mugisha, the head of all monitors, as the person worth taking all the credit.

Mugisha, 18, though a student of physics, chemistry and maths acts like someone who has been to a school of management.

"I have an art for leadership. That is why we have been able to ensure that students maintain personal and school hygiene,” he says.

And judging from the big number of students crowding around him, it is inevitable to see the charisma in him.

Colleagues at school reveal that despite Mugisha’s busy schedule, he is always the first to arrive at school because he believes that students must be smart in both the mind and must always keep time.

Although Mugisha wants to become a civil engineer, he draws inspiration from Elnesto Che Guevara, a freedom fighter in Cuba, and Ben Carson, a US doctor who rose from the bottom to the top his class.