Striking Ndejje University students sent home

First year male engineering students at Ndejje University have been sent home for an indefinite period, following a Wednesday protest in which they destroyed property.

This was after the students, who were protesting against an abrupt increment in tuition and accommodation fees, went on rampage destroying bathrooms in Noah's Ark dormitory.

The students also complained of poor feeding and being forced to sleep in congested dormitories.

The University public relations officer, Joseph Semmanda said the accommodation fees had been increased by 23 percent while tuition had been raised by 10 percent.

Semmanda said the university made the increment so as to cope with the increased costs of administration.

There was tension at the Luwero based University as the affected students left the campus amid heavy security manned by policemen from Luwero and Bombo.

The Savannah Regional Police commander, Julius Ceasar Tusigwire who was overseeing the station, blamed the University for ‘ambushing' the students by abruptly making increments without engaging them.

"They should have engaged the students before making the increments instead of ambushing them because they had already made a contract with them," he said.

Tusingwire who toured the dormitories said the students were congested with each cubical accommodating eight students instead of two like it is the case in other universities.