The latest news reaching Campus Bee indicate that about 500 students from the School of Statistics and Planning at Makerere University are at risk of missing graduation as their lecturers deliberately continue to withhold their results following failure by the university management to have their dean, Dr Robert Wamala, relieved of his duties.
The lecturers are accusing the dean of mismanagement, under performance, corruption and dismissing staff without following rules and regulations.
According to Dr Wamala, his term of office as dean is still running until his sucking is passed through the Human Resource office. This drama kicked off last year when 31 of the 47 lecturers petitioned the Makerere University Council to have him thrown out of office.
The undergraduate students who are set to graduate in January 2019 offer statistics courses of Actuarial Sciences, Quantitative Economics, Business Statistics, and Population Sciences. Following Wamala’s failure to resign, the Makerere lecturers are reportedly in plans of writing to the Vice chancellor in a bid to kick their dean out of office.
It is said that the University Council requested the lecturers who had signed the petition to furnish copies of their university identification cards and mobile phone numbers within seven days, a directive they refused to comply to following their lawyers’ advice
More details show that the CoBAMS college principle, Dr Eria Hisali, directed Dr Wamala to hand over office to Ms Agnes Ssekiboobo, who has been appointed to act in his place. “The purpose of writing to you is to ask you to hand over office of the dean as well as all responsibilities associated with the office on Monday. Arrangements will be made to get you a suitable office to enable you execute your duties. The college human resources officer is hereby directed to witness the hand over,” reads part of the letter.
