By Shifrah Kayaga
Makerere university day scholars have today decided to join the evening students in a solidarity demonstration meant to turn back the university into what it was before, fair and with no issues. They this morning entered into classrooms and forcefully chased lecturers those lecturers who were teaching day scholars pushing them to join them in demonstration.
One of the students from FEMA Hope Namkaabo in the day programme doing a bachelors in development economics called the act by the administration as unfair to some students.
“This is total unfairness for our fellows to be treated like poor people yet we all struggle and pay similar tuition amounts. Take an instance of someone who struggles on her own to raise this tuition and makes sure she pays it in time, is it fair for her money to be wasted like as if she didn’t sweat? We are to strike till when what ever happens in the meetings from now on concerning evening students comes out positive.” She added.
Parents of some the students have also come out to air their dissatisfaction against the action taken by the university on evening students. Robert Yiga a parent of three children undergoing studies at Makerere and a business man at Kiseka market was quoted in an argument with his son Ali Kyeyune over the recent developments.
“We play our role as parents to complete tuition in time so that our children be contented and comfortable within lecture rooms but this system they have introduced in unfairness isn’t welcomed at all and it’s a total nonsense”.
At the moment, the police is on the premises trying to calm the students involved in the demonstration.
