Campus Bee has been tipped about an impending apology by one of the students who are currently serving a suspension Uganda Christian University (UCU) imposed on them following a demonstration they allegedly held against tuition increment in April.
Ziraba Joshua, a student at UCU and also a Member of its students’ Parliament is set to make a public apology at Nkoyoyo Hall during a worship event on Thursday next week during a midday worship event.
Campusbee is informed that the student is to apologize for “having taken part in a demonstration challenging the violation of a number of students rights at the university” which has left UCU with egg on its face after some of the alleged demonstrators it expelled dragged it to Court, besides unseemly media attention it’s rather high-handed actions have generated.
Besides the apology, the humiliated Ziraba will also lose his membership in the students’ Parliament where he was serving as chief whip, “on top of abandoning any plans he had to sue the university, if any,” before the Christian-founded institution can accept the apology and reverse his suspension.
When Campusbee reached out to him for a comment, Ziraba could neither confirm nor deny the reports. He simply stated, in a cryptic tone, that “there comes a time when you have to let go of some things”.
Even after being sued by two of the expelled students for violating their rights during its heavy-handed crackdown on individuals it suspected to have taken part in the demonstration, the Mukono-based institution is still playing “tough guy”.
Tough guy, by forcing students like this one to publicly apologize for having done what in view of many students was the right thing, instead of extending olive branches towards them in light of the current and looming legal action and embarrassment by students against its oppressive tendencies.
However, Ziraba categorically states that the apology is out of his own volition and not solicited by the university.
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