Last week students of Michell hall at Makerere declared a ‘public month’, protesting poor sanitation and use of their previous dining hall as a lecture room.
Consenquently, they closed the hall and stopped social science students who normally used the place from accessing it.
But Maerere administration probably must have taken this ‘public month’ declaration as a joke. Today morning, first year students staged a riot protesting going one week without studying political science and sociology.
“The university promised to work on this in the next two weeks but that’s too long. We paid our money and we can’t spend a whole month without lecturers that’s not acceptable” said one of the students.
The students’ leaders convened an emergency meeting with the administrators to find a solution to this, but they haven’t communicated what was resolved in this meeting.
For now, if Makererere is serious about making strikes a history, the administration may need not only to pass new fees policy but also pay attention to these grievances.
