News reaching just in suggest that Makerere University students are up in arms again after Police interrupted their scheduled general assembly in the Freedom Square today morning. The students had earlier announced that they would meet to discuss the outcome of the University Council meeting.
Police, according to our sources on the ground, have now filled up the Freedom Square and are not allowing any students to access it. More teargas has been fired in Lumumba Hall, Mary Stuart and Nkrumah among other halls of residence.
The students were meeting to forge a way forward after the University Council last night rejected their demands of scrapping the cumulative tuition policy and instead resolved to scrap the increase on functional fees.
“The 15 percent adjustment in fees shall not apply to functional fees for the remaining period of implementation of fees structure adopted in July 2018. Functional fees shall be capped at the rate applied on the admission cohort for 2019/2020 academic year for the next three years,” reads part of the statement signed by the council chairperson Mrs Lorna Magara.
“Lectures that were ongoing were all interrupted and the students told to go back home.” Our source within the university told us.
