The National Unity Platform (NUP) has suspended two more student leaders from its Institutions Wing, escalating disciplinary action against guild officials who recently met President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and senior State House officials.
In a statement released on Friday, January 9, 2026, NUP announced the suspension of Comrade Bazibu Andrew, the Guild President of Metropolitan International University, and Comrade Namugerwa Alice, Vice President of Kyambogo University and Vice President of the NUP Chapter at Kyambogo University.
The suspensions follow what the party described as verified pictorial evidence showing the two leaders attending a closed-door engagement with President Museveni and First Lady Janet Museveni at State House. The meeting was part of a broader interaction between the President and selected student leaders from various institutions of higher learning.
According to the NUP Institutions Wing, the participation of the two leaders constituted unauthorised engagement with the regime, directly contravening the party’s values, discipline, and long-standing position of non-cooperation with what it describes as a dictatorship.
“This conduct amounts to fraternisation with forces hostile to the people’s struggle,” the statement reads, adding that no leader—regardless of position—may legitimise or normalise the structures of dictatorship while claiming to represent a people-centred movement.
The party resolved that Bazibu Andrew and Namugerwa Alice are suspended for six weeks from all NUP Institutions Wing activities with immediate effect. During this period, they are barred from representing, speaking for, or advancing the party’s position in any public or private engagements.
Additionally, NUP announced that Alice Namugerwa has been relieved of her duties as Vice President of the NUP Institutions Chapter at Kyambogo University pending the outcome of a disciplinary hearing.
The suspensions come barely days after NUP took similar action against Kyambogo University Guild President Andama Emmanuel, who was also suspended for attending the same State House engagement. The party has warned that more disciplinary measures may follow against any other student leaders found to have participated in similar meetings.
NUP said formal investigations will be conducted during the suspension period, after which disciplinary hearings will be convened in line with principles of natural justice. Sanctions may be upheld, varied, or escalated depending on the findings.
The development highlights growing tension within Uganda’s student leadership landscape, as some guild leaders engage with government platforms while opposition parties maintain a hardline stance against any interaction with President Museveni’s administration.
NUP reiterated its call to students and young people to remain focused on what it termed the struggle for democratic change, urging them to mobilise and participate in the forthcoming elections through peaceful and constitutional means.
“The struggle is collective, principled, and irreversible,” the party said.
