At least 18 students from Makerere University who were arrested on Monday this week during a students’ strike over tuition fees were sent to Luzira Upper Prison until next week.
Among the students sent Luzira include Makerere University Councilor Bernard Luyiga, who on Tuesday collapsed from a Police Cell in Kampala. The suspects in the cell told journalists that Luyiga collapsed after being kicked in the stomach by a certain police officer.

On Monday this week one student was also reportedly shot in leg by the Police and many others injured and rushed to Mulago Hospital some in critical condition. The students were protesting against the new university policy, which requires them to pay over 60% of their tuition fees in the first week of the semester.

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UN-HABITAT Internships: UN-HABITAT is the United Nations agency for human settlements, mandated to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.

UN-HABITAT offers internships in Nairobi, Kenya for undergraduate and graduate university students. The internships have a duration of three to six months and are on a volunteer basis.

For more information and internship application see; UN-HABITAT Internships

UN-HABITAT announces Internships for Undergraduates

UN-HABITAT Internships: UN-HABITAT is the United Nations agency for human settlements, mandated to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.

UN-HABITAT offers internships in Nairobi, Kenya for undergraduate and graduate university students. The internships have a duration of three to six months and are on a volunteer basis.

For more information and internship application see; UN-HABITAT Internships

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It is estimated that an average of university students or youth in general eat 4 to 6 rolex a week. Many youths in Uganda eat rolex for supper.

The rolex delicacy is made primarily from fried eggs and chapattis. Rolex has been a favour in Uganda for over a decade.

Doctors say that the “digestion of rolex is not easy if people don’t eat chapattis with vegetables and fresh fruits such as bananas among others.

Hover when rolex is taken with just tea or juice, constipation is likely to occur. Fried eggs are also high in cholesterol which is responsible for most heart diseases and strokes among middle-aged people or older people.

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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 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 students say that on Wednesday this week when Lukwago was addressing a meeting of councilors, Bernard Luyiga’s body guard attempted to sassinate Lukwago.

 It should also be remembered that Luyiga recently signed a memorandum of Understanding with NRM councilors to support him to become the Deputy mayor.

 The students say that Luyiga has now officially crossed from opposition to NRM and so he should resign his post and the electoral commission organises fresh elections. The law provides that when a candidate contests for any elective political post on a particular ticket and successfully wins the polls, that person is not supposed to cross from another political camp. When that person does it, he/she ceases to hold that post and the electoral commission organises fresh polls.

However for the case of Luyiga, he says he did not close to NRM. Luyiga argues that he only asked the NRM councilors to support him to become Deputy Mayor and that the body guard had no intentions of killing the Lord Mayor as was reported in the press.

By Christine Kate

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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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