Police at Makerere University has this morning arrested the minister of students’ affairs William Karamagi for leading a strike of disgruntled students whose names did not appear in the 67th graduation list.
Over 400 to-be-graduands have completed all the formalities required of them but their names are nowhere to be traced on the recently released graduation lists.
Denis Kasibante, OC Makerere university police station says Karamagi is under preventive arrest and will be released later today.
Kasibante says the leader was arrested for leading a group of students who were trying to force themselves into the main building where the university council meeting is currently taking place.
Stanley Okecho, the guild prime minister addressing journalists yesterday said that they are staging a peaceful strike tomorrow [Friday] morning to pressurize the administrators so that they can include the names of the 400 students whose names are missing in the graduation list.
“We have been on normal progress, paid the graduation fees, walked miles around campus to clear in all offices and have also bought the mighty branded graduation gown. Why are we not on the list?” queried one of the students.
“Can you imagine the university registrar tells me that he doesn’t know how he skipped my name among the many from the school of statistics and planning and he is telling to wait for 2018 as if it’s my mistake?” Ronald Amanyike wondered.
Most of the affected students are from the college of humanities and social science, school of statistics and planning, school of education and college of agriculture and environmental sciences.
