Just when the Guild house and the University administration thought that the tense situation had calmed, Kyambogo students picked up sticks and blew vuvuzelas at Senate building today morning demonstrating against the escalating issue of missing marks and increase in internship fees.
The students claimed that the University administration was becoming dictatorial and passing fees policies, not putting in mind their economic situation at hand. They also accused the Vice Chancellor and Dean of Faculty of School of Management and Entrepreneurship for increasing internship fees from Shs.150,000 to Shs. 250,000 in false disguise that the students and GRCs of the faculty had agreed to it.
“We deny all the accusations levied on the Guild Representative Councillors of School of Management and Entrepreneurship. We neither agreed nor connived with Senate to increase internship fees,” Isaac Muhumuza, a GRC at the faculty told Campus Bee.
The students also protested the unsolved issue of missing marks questioning why the University was making them pay high tuition fares and yet they were not receiving their results.
By 12:00 PM, Kyambogo University was filled with teargas and rubber bullets as the police and army tried to pursue the rowdy students. Some students were arrested from within the University premises whereas others were handpicked from their hostel rooms for masterminding the strike.
As I filed this story, the army were cited staging roadblocks, with the police forces trying to pursue hoodlums that were pelting stones at the police vehicles.
We shall keep you posted.
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