On Wednesday May 25, more than 100 Makerere students gathered at the High court Kampala chambers to hear a judgment, but any expectations of a resolution were dashed.

Squeezed out in the Twed Towers building, the students had hoped to find out who would be declared their guild president, between Bazil Mwotta and Roy Sembogga.

The case was lodged by Mwotta, a second-year student of Education, who was the declared winner of the March 11 elections. Mwotta was declared winner after garnering 4,594 votes (or 36.3 per cent of the vote), against Sembogga’s 4,276 (33.6 per cent).

Makerere University will soon close its Fort Portal campus later this August, six years after it started due to financial constraints.

The campus has an enrolment of about 180 students who are on short courses, degree and diploma courses. According to the vice chancellor, Prof John Ddumba-Ssentamu, the decision came after a resolution by the University Council, earlier this year, chaired by Dr Charles Wana-Etyem.

In a yet-to-be-filed petition, the intending petitioners want the Constitutional court to declare that the removal of presidential term limits in 2005 affected the basic structure of the constitution.