On Monday, FDC official Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, the party spokesman, requested citizens to boycott work on Thursdays through the ‘free My Vote’ Campaign. The boycott is a way of peacefully protesting the detention of canditate Dr. Kizza Besigye.
Today morning, lectures at Makerere University were not boycotted as lecturers turned up as early as 6.45 am so as to take students through the 7 am lectures.
Most students woke up and went to class with hope that the lecturers wouldn’t turn up so that they could go back to bed owing to the fact that it was a cold morning and morning lectures suck.
During the lectures, most lecturers carried out roll call so as to curb the few students that thought that Thursday had turned into a public holiday for them and so decided to dodge lectures.
“I didn’t know of any boycott!! Had I known earlier, I would have hit the snooze button until the sun got out of hiding. I think I am lucky I didn’t know, I would have missed roll call.”- Olga, a third year Development Studies student at Makerere said.
“I also wanted to be part of the boycott but then the amount of tuition my Parents pay every semester struck me as overwhelming so I decided to attend my lectures without fail.”- said Joseph, a Kyambogo student.
“Nothing much can change now, I think I moved on and I am not ready to fight anyone’s battles when I have my own education woes. Even my dad called me last night and warned me against boycotting any lectures or doing anything I would later regret.” Darlington, a Bcom student told this writer.
The current trend of events clearly suggests that students and lecturers at MUK will not be part of any defiance or free my vote campaign today or any other day. Students, like lectures are determined to go on with normal work since it’s no public Holiday.
