Makerere University National Resistance Movement (NRM) chapter members yesterday spent morning hours cleaning Makerere University, Wandegeya and the neighboring suburbs.
under the theme “Yellow Saturday Reloaded, the group of enthused Makerere students led by Opoya Michael, former guild president contestant on the party ticket on donned in red gowns on top of yellow NRM T-shirts moved in and around Makerere university carrying out general cleaning.
This week has been horrendous. There has been student unrest at Makerere and Kyambogo universities. For Makerere, it marks another ugly tale that has come to haunt the university each time important steps are taken in the premier institution in the country and in the region. The same can be said of Kyambogo, which is dogged by severe student unrest.
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Any shrewd mind has to bear in mind that a semester in Makerere is made up of four complete months, which means that those are 120 days of studying. In Makerere, demonstrations last for a maximum of 2 days. 120 days minus 2 days, there remains 118 days of serious studies. The question is: Do people accusing students of time wastage as themselves what students are doing in those days? Do they ask themselves?
Makerere University Public Relations Officer Ritah Namisango has said that the University Council has not suspended the tuition fees payment policy as earlier communicated by the students’ leaders.
Makerere University administrators yesterday held an emergency meeting where they extended the tuition payment deadline to the 12th week from the 6th week of the semester.
I commend the Gallant Makerereans not to give up, not to tire and not to be deterred. The 100%tuition policy is meant to torture and deny education to the poor students. If students couldn't afford the 60% tuition policy, what makes council think the students can afford the 100% tuition policy.
Gallant comrades, it is regrettable that some of our colleagues have been arrested as students tried to hold a peaceful demonstration.
We regret that fellow students have been brutalized by police amidst live bullets and heavy teargas.
Makerere university students are not yet ready to give up on their demand to have the 100% tuition policy completely scrapped off, which sparked a fresh demonstration since yesterday night.
A wave of fresh riots have swept across Makerere University yesterday night, after the University council and the guild president failed to agree on invalidating the controversial 100% tuition payment policy.
The guild president, H.E Bala David Bwiruka, had earlier on communicated to students about the meeting where he promised students to engage, diplomatically, the university council and make sure the policy gets scrapped off as many students due to persisitent strikes.