Who will end mess in Uganda schools?

Schools are back in the news again, but for the wrong reason. The government has said 70 per cent of the secondary schools in the country are operating boarding sections illegally. For instance, of the 800 secondary schools inspected by the Directorate of Education Standards over a given period, only 30 per cent of the schools were found to have complied with the required standards.
The crux of the matter is that there is a clear government policy that schools are licensed as day schools and any institution which wants to have a boarding section must apply separately, be inspected and if they meet the minimum standards, be given authority to operate. And, the boarding section arrangement is purely facilitated by parents as government policy only emphasises access to quality education.
Some of the standards required of a school to start a boarding section are that it must have separate accommodation for each sex and age group. Others are that it should use only single or double decker beds. Besides, each dormitory must have two emergency exits, and there must be occupancy permit for every dormitory. There should also be a guard on a 24-hour surveillance, among others.
So clearly, there is everything right in terms of policy and rules, but on paper. Why then are these policies not implemented? Who is sleeping on the job?
The Ministry of Education is one of the top heavy staffed ministries in the country supervised by a minister, ministers of state for Higher Education, and for Primary Education.
There is also the permanent secretary, inspectors of schools, and down the line are district education officers and headmasters. Besides, there are RDCs, district chairpersons, etc, all of whom should be monitoring schools.
So when an official report reveals that 70 per cent of boarding schools countrywide are substandard, who do we turn to?
Why the panic among government officials whenever a school fire kills children? Why is it then that we start hearing congestion in dormitories, use of three-decker beds, burglar proof on windows, lack of alternative exit points, etc? Aren’t monitoring government institutions part of the roles of RDCs, DISOs, and so on?
Importantly, why has no action been taken against any Education ministry official over a report showing that most boarding schools in the country are substandard?
Until government officials and other stakeholders start taking responsibility for the omissions or commissions in their line of duty, there will be no end to queries about the education sector is run.