The Guild President of Mukono-based Uganda Christian University (UCU) Campus, Kenneth Agaba Amponda has on Wednesday, March 24 led a Guild team in cleaning around Wandegeya and Bugujju suburbs.
The two suburbs are the immediate neighbors offering foodstuffs and other items for sale to UCU students. These have for long been unclean making many students to almost flee them. It was here that the Guild government of UCU decided to take up the responsibility.
“We can not keep waiting on the municipal council when we are the ones experiencing the effects,” Amponda said.
He added that it was included in Guild Week activities to promote health as they reflect on the first 100 days in office.
Amponda said that his first 100 days have been fruitful urging the stufdents’ fraternity to expect more.
“It is just 100 days but one may think we have taken years in office due to many achievements we have reached upon,” he said.
In his address to the locals of Bugujju, Amponda asked them to maintain a clean environment saying it will improve on their stay.
“We have been at peace with you, you are indeed a good community. We therefore ask you to keep healthy and clean environment,” he said.
Asked on what his picking of rubbish mean, Amponda said it is his daily habit of ensuring a clean environment.
“Any human being needs a clean environment. I usually do this even at home. It is just a responsibility to be taken up,” he stressed.
Olupot Calvin, the Guild Speaker said that they have multiple tasks ahead which he said would put UCU on another level.
“We have close to seven months in office and still with a lot to offer. We are playing our role in making UCU great,” he said.
He also applauded the guild members for what he called ‘fast-adaptiveness’ to students’ concerns.
Besides, students were excited when they saw the Guild President picking and sweeping rubbish. Some said it represents servant leadership.
“It is unbelievable to see leaders of our times do that. I thought the spirit had died in Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and Magufuli,” Okwakolo Valentine, a second year student of Law said.
To Hellen Namuyangu, a third year student of Bachelors of Social Work and Social Administration, the act is inspiring to the new breed of African leadership.
“I’m inspired by what I saw my president doing. We need more of such down to earth leaders,” she said.
However, the Guild Week started on March 22 with visiting of hostels, serving of food at dinning hall, cleaning around UCU, and tonight, the community is headed for tribunal mock. The activities are still ongoing till Sunday where Guild officials shall offer thanksgiving in Catholic Church opposite UCU’S main gate.
