The day started so beautifully with everyone rushing to attend lectures elegantly and appropriately dressed for a Monday morning.
No one expected chaos of any kind since the Guild Speaker had clarified that there wasn’t going to be any general assembly regarding the discussion of surcharges and missing marks like the rumor had it.
Apparently, it is alleged that the NUP leaders were so determined to hold this assembly that when it wasn’t approved by the speaker, they instead held a press conference in one of the rooms in CTF.
The motion of the conference was the surcharges issue as students want the late payment date to be extended to up to the end of the 8th week as opposed to the sixth week policy of the university.
Lectures and classes were going on smoothly and peacefully until the air in and around CTF was filled with deafening noise as if everyone was being warned of a strike.
“Wewe! Wewe!” It all began with enraged male voices. Doors banging, chairs breaking, disorganized sounds of footsteps, people screaming, girls seeking refuge wherever they could find it and everyone running out of the lecture rooms.
Suddenly, all teaching and learning came to an end as everyone ran about on compound, fleeing campus to find safety and of course the police everywhere trying to calm the situation down.
The chaotic atmosphere did not last more than twenty minutes but it lasted long enough for the police to identify and capture the ringleaders of the “would be strike”.
Nalubanga Hanifa Kasim, the GRC private students was one of the people that spearheaded the protest. She was arrested together with Kakungulu Samuel, Nkwanga Michael the so-called Student Activist, Obiara Ben, Mukibi Isaac and Akis Benjamin.
The bitter and furious students’ fraternity has given the police and everyone else involved twenty-four hours to release them without fail or else action will be taken.
We will keep you posted and updated about “The Action” the students will take in case the authorities do not bow to their threat.
