The students were demonstrating over poor sanitation in their toilets and internship money. When they went to demand for an explanation why the toilets could not be fixed and why they could not get their internship money the arrogant IT professor could not give them an appropriate explanation.

He was only advising the already charged students to keep quiet so that he talks to them. This prompted the angry students to get stones and canes so that they could discipline him. The IT professor had first refused to address these students and he locked himself in his office until the intervention of prof. Tanga Odoi, the chairperson of Makerere University Academic Staff Association.

The students also demanded for his resignation. The police intervened and the IT professor managed to escape.

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 The traders are protesting against the high interest bank charges. The traders say that the banks which have been over charging them include Citi Bank, Stanbic Bank, Barclays bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Bank of Baroda, Centenary Bank, Opportunity Uganda,, Finance Trust, Equity Bank, Global Bank, Eco Bank and Tropical Bank among others.

The traders’ spokesman, Issa Sekitto has told our reporters inKampalatoday that all their efforts to force the commercial banks to reduce the exorbitant interest charges on loans have failed.

Sekitto has conformed that Makerere University Academic Staff are participating in their strike because some of them are also traders operating at different levels.

The spokesperson ofMakerereUniversityacademic Staff Association, Louis Kakinda has also conformed that the university dons are participating in the ongoing traders strike.

 By James Okello

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MUASA President, Prof. Tanga Odoi says the government has failed to fulfill the promises made to the lecturers in September 2011 while convincing them to end the August strike.

He says up to now since their meeting with the president, issues of salary change, take over of wage bill by the government, to-up allowances and DAP pension funds held in in the National Insurance Corporation have not be addressed by the government despite the presidential directive that the matters be immediately be solved.

Odoi says they are now giving an ultimatum of two week to the ministry of education to urgently handle their issues before they go on strike again.

The lecturers held massive sit down strike in August that lasted for a month which later attracted the attention of the president but it seems the problems were just postponed instead of solving them.

By Isaac Senabulya

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