The demonstration made the police to heavily deploy at all the gates of Makerere University, schools, colleges and offices for fear that the rioting students would burn them.

The striking students demanded their Vice Chancellor, Prof. Venansious Baryamureba to explain why the university has not paid them their allowances. The striking students abused the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Makerere University in charge of finance, Prof Stevens Tickodri-Togboa when he requested them to call off the strike. They likened him to a chimpanzee while others described him as a ‘silly’ person.’ The professor politely kept quiet.

The outgoing guild president ofMakerereUniversity, Dennis Oneka confirms the strike. Oneka also requested the students to call off the strike as the university looks into their problems.

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The public standing orders provides that a public officer will act in an acting capacity for only six months of which the Vice chancelor and his deputies have violated because they have so far stayed in office for more than two years.

Winston Nsibirwa, the chairperson ofMakerereUniversityconcerned students association, says that “we have contacted our lawyers to drag the university council and the persons bearing the said offices to court.”

Baryamureba’s deputies are prof. Lilian Tibatemwa who is the deputy vice chancellor in charge of academics and prof. Kikodri Togboa who is in charge of finance and administration.

By Walakira Nyanzi

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