Simon Ssenoga, a student of Industrial and Organizational Psychology is one of those students that took part in the Makerere University tuition increment strike not practically but through social media and was later suspended by the university management claiming that one of his tweets targeted the university administration and invited students to continue with the strike.
Ssenoga who uses @sennogakaaya on October 22 tweeted in his own words saying that, “What is going on @MakerereU is really unfortunate, @ProfNawangwe get back this University into your hands and out of @MurangiraGord hands and put him to order because things are not any good.”
The university then used this as evidence to suspend him out of the institution. He was consequently taken to court to battle with allegations of inciting violence among fellow students.
Despite this, the students’ disciplinary committee of Makerere University headed by His Worship Precious Ngabirano yesterday 11th December, dropped the charges against Ssenoga saying the allegations were not right and asked for his immediate reinstatement. The committee also added that the evidence provided by the university doesn’t show any violence related acts.
“I was just on my way and five minutes late for the DC [Disciplinary Committee]. The decision by the DC is just the first step for my mission to trim powers of Nawangwe to suspend students anyhow. It is a clear manifestation that I as Ssenoga have a right to my opinion,” Ssenoga said.
He said that this can’t just go like this and promised to the the administration over wasting his time he could have used to study during his examination period.
