After the shocking documentary run by NBS television that revealed the nasty reality of how lecturers at Uganda’s oldest university Makerere manipulate girls to satisfy their sexual desires in exchange for marks, students at the university have all sprang up in arms against the implicated lecturer a one Dr. Swizen Kyomuhendo from the department of Social Works and Social Administration (SWASA) and demanded that he be fired and shamed for his actions.
This was in the wake of uncomfirmed reports that the said lecturer had tendered in his resignation from the university on being exposed by the investigative documentary.
From aspiring students to passionate students of the law, Makerere air was filled with calls for justice from all angles.
Guild aspirant Edward Kinene Ssemakula, in a circulated communique, said that unlike the previous incidences, this will not go unresolved and that he was personally willing to follow it to the root.
When contacted, third year Law student Gulam Hussein Dawood said a resignation was very light considering the magnitude of the crime.
According to him, disciplinary action that results in firing him sends a stronger message and sets a stronger precedent.
“The problem with our sexual harassment policy is enforcement. The machinery has to be shown to actually work.” Dawood told our reporter.
A resignation from the university wouldnt subject the said suspect to any in-house disciplinary action as they’d have exempted themselves from it by the process of resignation.
Dawood based his opinion on the matter on the fact that by law, a person entitled to accept or reject a resignation may reject it in light of pending disciplinary action that may result in dismissal.
