Therefore the board of trustees has been left with no option but to dissolve you as the school management board. This means your membership to this board ceases forthwith. However, you are notified that if you are still interested to be part of the new board to be set up, you should submit your application to the board of trustees by the end of the day of Monday 15 July 2013”. It is not clear on the papers as to whether or not the letter was brought to the attention of the appellants but it is not disputed that the appellants at some stage thereafter came to know of the fact that an Interim Board of Governors had been appointed by the trustees. Thereafter a situation then allegedly pertained where instructions were being given to the administrative staff by both boards of governors and the headmaster was taking instructions from the of Trustees” and not from the appellants. The third respondent “Board Naison Tirivavi is the headmaster. THE APPLICATION The appellants averred that the urgent problem and reason for the application is that: new trustees are running havoc and disrupting the management of the school. “The Unfortunately, they are also abusing school funds and resources for personal gain. Until recently the reasons for the conduct of the RCZ and its appointed trustees, whilst still disruptive, were not clear. Sadly it is now the clearer and urgent that the reason for this conduct is to take control of finances unlawfully and to plunder inter alia them.” They averred that the trustees had lifted the suspension of the headmaster on charges of misconduct while the charges against him were still pending and attached vouchers to show that within one month, that is to say, during the period 19 June, 2013 to 19 July 2013, the first to third respondents had looted some $80 000 from the school coffers for their own gain and without the knowledge of the appellants.
Therefore the board of trustees has been left with no option but to dissolve you as the school management board. This means your membership to this board ceases forthwith. However, you are notified that if you are still interested to be part of the new board to be set up, you should submit your application to the board of trustees by the end of the day of Monday 15 July 2013”. It is not clear on the papers as to whether or not the letter was brought to the attention of the appellants but it is not disputed that the appellants at some stage thereafter came to know of the fact that an Interim Board of Governors had been appointed by the trustees. Thereafter a situation then allegedly pertained where instructions were being given to the administrative staff by both boards of governors and the headmaster was taking instructions from the “Board of Trustees” and not from the appellants. The third respondent Naison Tirivavi is the headmaster. THE APPLICATION The appellants averred that the urgent problem and reason for the application is that: “The new trustees are running havoc and disrupting the management of the school. Unfortunately, they are also abusing school funds and resources for personal gain. Until recently the reasons for the conduct of the RCZ and its appointed trustees, whilst still disruptive, were not clear. Sadly it is now the clearer and urgent that the reason for this conduct is inter alia to take control of finances unlawfully and to plunder them.” They averred that the trustees had lifted the suspension of the headmaster on charges of misconduct while the charges against him were still pending and attached vouchers to show that within one month, that is to say, during the period 19 June, 2013 to 19 July 2013, the first to third respondents had looted some $80 000 from the school coffers for their own gain and without the knowledge of the appellants.
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