Makerere University vice chancellor Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe has reinstated three students that had been suspended for their involvement in the government sponsored students protests over delayed allowances.
Nawangwe says their involvement in the strike is ‘an abuse to their privilege of government sponsorship, which can be withdrawn’.
Their reinstatement follows an appeal by the guild president Lubega Nsamba Vincent who asked Nawangwe to pardon the students arguing that their actions were largely out of desperation rather than defiance.
The three students were part of a larger group of government sponsored students that protested the delayed release of their allowances last week.
On Monday Uganda Law Society president Isaac Ssemakade commited himself to ensure that Nawangwe stops issuing ‘unlawful’ suspensions to students. He said he was to deploy a team of 400 lawyers to ‘bang Nawangwe’s table’.
