Makerere University students went on strike on Tuesday demanding university administration to scrap off a policy that requires them to clear tuition by the sixth weeks.

The strike which was yesterday organized and fueled by a section of students led by Makerere University Private Students Association president, Wanyera Simon started early in the morning.

Dr. Simba Ssali Kayunga, a senior Political Science lecturer at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences termed the strike as “irrational and unrealistic” but also blaming it all on the "Museveni regime."

Concerned students engaged the Professor in an informal conversation at College of Humanities and Social Sciences shortly after its main glass door entrance had been destroyed by striking students.

Dr. Simba argued that strikes at Makerere University have continued to become more of another course unit and are becoming irresistibly violent as institution property is destroyed, people hurt and lectures put at a standstill.

According to Dr. Simba, the University's fourth position in Africa is not because of the students but because of exclusive research carried out by lecturers.

Such strikes in his view are those of shallow minds and that sentimental students’ leaders at the University fuel them with an irrational thought to prove their utmost capacity in leadership.
 

Every organization needs resources to operate and according to Dr. Simba, students who strike abandon facts that some lecturers are not paid on government payroll and forgetting that the students end up studying less and losing more on the job market.

PHOTO CREDIT: Katumba Badru