Over 221 students have received first class degrees and 41 PhDs.  The former South African President, Thabo Mbeki is expected to attend theMakerereUniversitygraduation ceremony on Thursday this week.

All the graduands who cleared all requirements have received their transcripts at the graduation.  The university management banned cameras and guns at the venue of the graduation.

The only people who were allowed to appear at the venue with cameras were journalists from the New Vision, WBS TV, Bukedde FM, Red Pepper and Onion news tabloid among other media houses.

According to the week long graduation programme, 221 students have received first class degrees and 41 PhDs.  The former South African President, Thabo Mbeki will attend theMakerereUniversitygraduation ceremony on Thursday this week.  There was drama today at the graduation when one of the graduands attempted to enter with a pistol at the graduation ceremony. However the police was around and controlled the situation.

MakerereUniversityspokesperson Ritah Namisango, says that on Thursday Mbeki will give a public lecture at the university that will run under the theme, “Africaand the World: Intervention and Reform.”

 The key personalities programmed to attend Mbeki’s lecture include Prof. Mahmood Mamdani, the director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research and Prof. Peter Anyang Nyong’o, a Kenyan legislator and Kenyan minister for medical services.