Back in the day, campus was a real hustle either because technology was not widely used hence making it hard to have fake results or because guys back then were just dense, who knows?
Times have changed, students nowadays dodge lectures, tests, exams, because they know there is an illegal or rather commercial way around the problem. They know that even if they don’t sweat it, they will graduate with honors.
The price usually is 500,000/- and voila, you are a certified graduate ready to terrorize the streets of Kampala, knocking at offices for a clean good paying job.
“At Kyambogo if you want to become an Engineer without ever attending class, or doing any tests, it’s very easy and will cost you about UGX 500,000 for every paper,” Allan Kato (not real Name) a graduate and beneficiary of the paid degree narrated as he tried to enlighten us on how easy it is to graduate.
Even though different University bodies and the Government are trying as much as possible to crack down on the levels of doctored graduates, students although lazy, always find a way out.
“All you have to do at Kyambogo University is be a registered student. The rest will work itself out and at the end of the study period, you will be a crowned engineer with first class honors- it’s beautiful,” Kato summed it up.
It takes many sleepless nights, walks in the rain, hard work and study to get through Uganda’s prestigious Makerere University, one of the best Universities in Africa but it’s not any different.
“I graduated, but I wasn’t meant too,” Kasujja Moses (Not real Name) spoke up. Speaking to many of his friends, we got to learn that Kasujja only stepped in a lecture room in first year, ever since then, he has been going on about his own business, missing lectures, tests, and sometimes exams.
Unlike Kyambogo however, the cost of being a pseudo graduate at Makerere is a bit scary hence has only been left for the rich and the crooks who can still find a way around it.
UGX 500,000 per missed paper!!! “My parents are wealthy, and I have two side businesses and that’s how I was able to pay for over 17 missed papers. I am now a graduate, not in such of a job, but well, I know I shall get my transcript either way,” Kasujja narrated.
Well as we keep blaming the education system for being scanty and inadequate in imparting knowledge, must we not also blame ourselves for cheating so much we forget what the outcomes we might turn out to be?
Anyhow, Moses, let’s go to kibaala tonight, we shall pay ourselves into our desired careers, zero hustle.
