Govt sets team to discuss Makerere saga
Sep 15, 2011
THE Cabinet has appointed a team of lawyers from the Attorney General’s office to meet with the Makerere University legal team and review documents between the university and the National Insurance Corporation (NIC).
By Raymond Baguma
THE Cabinet has appointed a team of lawyers from the Attorney General’s office to meet with the Makerere University legal team and review documents between the university and the National Insurance Corporation (NIC).
Information and national guidance minister Mary Karooro Okurut said the discussions would focus on resolving the standoff between Makerere University Academic Staff Association (MUASA) and NIC over the staff pensions.
Karooro said the Attorney General, Peter Nyombi, will lead the Government team, while vice-chancellor Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba will lead the Makerere team.
Early this month, the University Council closed the institution after a strike over nonpayment of lecturers’ pension of about sh16.7b from NIC.
Lecturers had also demanded salary increment among other things.
Karooro addressed journalists at the Media Centre in Kampala yesterday.
“The Government is looking at long-term rather than short-term measures to solve the problems of Makerere,†she said.
She said the State Minister for Education, Chrysostom Muyingo, had presented a ministerial paper to the Cabinet on the closure of Makerere and what was being done to reopen the university.
The meeting was chaired by the Prime Minister, Amama Mbabazi.
“The Cabinet’s stand is that the earlier the staff strike ends and the university re-opens, the better,†Karooro said.
This comes after President Yoweri Museveni met the MUASA leaders over the weekend to discuss the lecturers grievances’ that led to the strike.
THE Cabinet has appointed a team of lawyers from the Attorney General’s office to meet with the Makerere University legal team and review documents between the university and the National Insurance Corporation (NIC).
Information and national guidance minister Mary Karooro Okurut said the discussions would focus on resolving the standoff between Makerere University Academic Staff Association (MUASA) and NIC over the staff pensions.
Karooro said the Attorney General, Peter Nyombi, will lead the Government team, while vice-chancellor Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba will lead the Makerere team.
Early this month, the University Council closed the institution after a strike over nonpayment of lecturers’ pension of about sh16.7b from NIC.
Lecturers had also demanded salary increment among other things.
Karooro addressed journalists at the Media Centre in Kampala yesterday.
“The Government is looking at long-term rather than short-term measures to solve the problems of Makerere,†she said.
She said the State Minister for Education, Chrysostom Muyingo, had presented a ministerial paper to the Cabinet on the closure of Makerere and what was being done to reopen the university.
The meeting was chaired by the Prime Minister, Amama Mbabazi.
“The Cabinet’s stand is that the earlier the staff strike ends and the university re-opens, the better,†Karooro said.
This comes after President Yoweri Museveni met the MUASA leaders over the weekend to discuss the lecturers grievances’ that led to the strike.