MAK students strike over Administration's failure to fix lecturers issues

Makerere University students resolved last evening to stage massive demonstrations this morning to protest the failure by the administration to compel lecturers to teach them. The students made the resolution in an emergence meeting convened by the Guild Council at Makerere University main hall on Monday night.

The resolution came shortly after the General Assembly of lecturers under Makerere University Academic Staff Association-MUASA voted unanimously to maintain their ongoing strike over the none payment of their salary incentives for the last eight months. During the MUASA General Assembly, Roy Ssemboga, the Makerere University Guild President, pleaded with the lecturers to resume teaching in vain.

As a result, the Student Guild led by Ssemboga convened the Guild Council to chat a way forward. During the meeting, student leaders resolved to storm the main university building this morning to express their dissatisfaction since they have run out of options.

"We are in a tricky position now, we must do all we can to make sure the university doesn't close tomorrow. For everyone's information here, council will be sitting at 8:00 am and I am informed that they might close the university. My appeal to you is that let us go mobilize our fellow students so that by 7:00 am, we are at the main building," Jothan Yamureebire Burobuto, the Guild Prime Minister said.

The guild council moved a resolution supporting the motion to stage a demonstration. Shortly after, Roy Ssemboga, the Makerere University Guild President, said he had received a phone call from the University council chairman, Eng. Charles Wana-Etyem, saying president Museveni had issued a blank cheque to resolve the issues at the university.

By 11pm last nights, students in different halls of residences such as Lumumba, Livingstone, Nkrumah and Nsibirwa halls were locked up in meetings to discuss the anticipated closure of the university. Our reporter saw students donning their red gowns moving around to mobilise their colleagues for the anticipated uprising their morning.

Our reporter couldn't speak to any member of the administration about the student's resolution by the time of filing this story.