Mbarara based Anglican Affiliated Bishop Stuart University(BSU) has been going through one hell of a time as a result of students and some members of its staff dragging it to court over petty issues. Since this year begun the road has not been very smooth for the campus after battling cases tending to nepotism and unfair policies
Recently, the university was dragged to the District Labor office after it unfairly declined to renew the contract of one of its lecturer in the faculty of education by a one Mr. Karanzi Naphtali whose contract had expired mid this year. Upon the unfair treatment by the university, Karanzi refused to hand over his office to the person appointed to replace him a move that prompted the university to try to forcefully evict him.
Naphtali who is a senior lecturer at the faculty of education of the campus had rendered his services till the beginning of August this year. Upon writing a request for term renewal to the university’s ‘top offices’, the administrators however trashed his applications a move which prompted him to run to the Mbarara District labor office to file a complaint.
“I rendered excellent services to the university and my students can testify to that. Why would the university deny me a chance to renew my contract which we had earlier on agreed when they were employing me? These are unjust treatments that both staff and students should fight,”!he said in a statement
After careful study of Naphtali’s complaint and investigations into the matter by the District labor officer assisted by the police, Bishop Stuart university has been ordered to renew his contract for another term of four years and pay undisclosed sum of money for damages to the victim. According to a letter addressed to the university from the District labor office, the university’s ‘’unrealistic refusal to renew the contract of their employee was considered void and unfair basing on the past contract agreements the employer had had with the employee”
In recent months, BSU has had several court hearings where a number of students dragged the university to court of allegations of cases ranging from nepotism, favoring only Anglican students to other religions as well as unbalanced services being offered to both students and staff.
