Makerere’s Nkrumah hall statue given a mosquito net

Culture in Makerere University is a treasured element and all halls of residence strive to ensure that their culture is what resonates with everyone in the campus.
For this, positions on hall executives have been reserved for a Culture Minister and his/her deputy to ensure the culture is maintained.

In an insane twist of events however, students from Northcote based Nkrumah hall seem to have taken this a little too far.

The statue of Kwame Nkrumah, after whom the hall is named, has been dressed up with actual clothes, given a phone and in the night times, a mosquito net is hang over him.

“We are activists. Nkrumah was the epitome of activism in pre-colonial Ghana and we cannot not let his blood be sucked by lowly mosquitoes”, Odoi Nobert Omollo the hall deputy speaker told Campus Bee.

The culture minister Job Owachigui told us that mosquitoes are becoming too many in the hall and the first person they got worried about is their “mentor” the late Ghanian prime minister.

However, majority students couldnt hold back their laughter at the suggestion that Nkrumah’s statue ‘sleeps’ in a mosquito net.

“What madness!” Edwin Taremwa exclaimed amidst uncontrolable laughter.
Taremwa, who stays in Kikumi Kikumi, said he passes by this hall everyday on his way to and fro campus.

“I think this is a joke. What effect would a mosquito net have on a statue?” he asked.
We leave this for the enthusiastic Nkrumah hall residents to answer.