LILLIAN KESIIME
Whether Nkumba University students will sit for this year’s end of semester examinations is a question yet to be answered by the university management. This comes after the university administration suspended end of semester examinations that were set to begin in a week’s time, indefinitely.
On Monday, Nkumba university students held a massive strike destroying the university facilities amounting like glass windows, chairs among others to millions of shillings. As a result, over 30 students were arrested but later released on police bond.
The new academic registrar, Christine Obonyo, had hiked fees charges, a move students deemed as ‘harsh’. For example, there was an increment of retake fees from shs100, 000 to shs200, 000 and missed papers from shs20,000 to shs100, 000.
After the massive strike, the academic registrar, Christine Obonyo was thrown out of office til further notice as the university still considers the fate of her career. Efforts to get to Vice Chancellor by this website were futile as her declined to talk to this reporter.
Also, reports indicate that a new guild president was sworn in after the acting president “failed to act upon the pleas of the students”.
