The fight against sexually harassment at Makerere University has intensified, Campus Bee reports. Following the expose of Mr Kisuze Edward a Makerere senior staff member who sexually harassed a student, Ms Brendalynn Kirungi, an alumnus of the Ivory Tower has also come out to reveal that Mr Kisuze is not alone.
Ms Kirungi says, in her post below, that Makerere is infested by many ‘preying mantis’:
“Banange, there is another man I know in Makerere… He works in Main Building, I don’t remember his name but I know his GU face and his gu shee accent.
During exams, he is usually invigilating but he is not a lecturer. While you are doing an exam, he comes with bu notes, write here your number or you can copy your friend, I can help you. I remember in my year 1, nga I have just joined MUK, especially if you join with your bi big hips and bum bum hoooo, it can be a curse.
Mamama….. Guys, that guy was weird. Nga he makes himself serious in the examination room as if you have done something yet he is asking for your number. He could even say something like you and her, stay behind after the exam.
Naturally, you are disturbed because this is an exam and you are already nervous then the gu invigilator pretends to have a problem with you yet he wants your number. Trust me, if you know that in MUK, anyone can make you fail to pass, giving a stupid man your number becomes the least of your problems so that he stops walking around you with his kavubuka all the time.
It always starts with the verbal sexual harassment that comes with threats of I have your student number and I know you have retakes. Now, good thing is, I disliked my course then, didn’t care if I graduated or not so I called my Mum and told her and she told me to tell him that we shall involve police and go to court. I also told my friends Cathy and Winnie. Then he stopped.
I think the first mistake most students, including guys btw, make is keeping quiet and handling things. These are not things you handle. You tell the problem so that you solve it. Secondly, these people real threaten your ability to get a degree, guys, me I had nothing to lose by not graduating, I already knew what I wanted to do with my life and a degree was just an award of sorts, a self fulfillment stage of my life…. But if you have everything to lose if you don’t get a degree, you will do what the idiot wants.
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However, amidst all this chaos, let us not forget the girls who throw themselves to these men in public universities. They are also amongst us Mama, what should we do with them. Mama, give us a signal. But from what I know, these sex predators are particular and picky, like most men, they want to chose their own prey and they like to challenge themselves. So, sometimes throwing yourself at them doesn’t work.
Lastly, in MUK getting a retake is like you are the biggest failure in life. That’s what most students are afraid of so the males usually pay hefty amounts of money and the females who don’t have the money, usually pay in other means to pass. But your fellow classmates are the cause of this… They look at you as a failure when you have retakes. Thank God, I did mine painfully. I remember one semester, I had 14 exams to do. And ladies, when you give it your all, you can only do a retake once.
That stupid statement kids make of retakes show on your transcript, ignore it. So far, I have never been unemployed and none of my employees have focused on which course units I did retakes for. I have my transcript and I can deliver. That’s all they care about.
Save for the employees like Accounting firms who want first class degrees but even then, drop the pressure. You won’t die if you don’t work in a firm that only admits first class degrees. 
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