Makerere University candidates vying for the post of Vice Chancellor are on strike. They have shunned the last interviewing session protesting the way it was conducted. Among the candidates, it was only Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba who accepted to be interviewed. Other candidates in the race are Professors Tonny Oyana, Barnabas Nawangwe, Edward Kirumura, Eli Katunguka, Augustus Nuwagaba and John Ddumba-Ssentamu. The Professors demanded for the immediate resignation of Prof. Baryamureeba as acting Vice Chancellor.

Prof. Baryamureeba on Monday promised to revamp Makerere University community if he is re-appointed, as the University Vice Chancellor.

“If I am re-appointed, i will revamp the students’ welfare and academic standards, start a health insurance scheme for staff, improve; wages, infrastructure, financial management, resource mobilisation, and research,” Baryamureeba told journalists at Makerere this morning.

Baryamureeba vows to diversify the university’s income generation, increase the university’s visibility, and to also ensure that Makerere University stops registering deficits.

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The tough talking security men and women denied him a right to greet his supporters at Entebbe Airport or to address them. The journalists were equally blocked from covering him. From Entebbe, Besigye who is also the leader of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) went to Kajjansi for Activists for Change rally.

At the rally the police reportedly arrested dozens of his supporters and fired bullets in the air to disperse his supporters. But Besigye on a microphone asked the security operatives to do whatever is on their mind.

The A4C meeting was later cancelled following the heavy deployment of the security both in plain clothes and in uniform. Besigye vows that the rally will have to take place on Saturday at all costs!

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