No reason why Makerere cannot be clean, neat
Aug 04, 2011
EDITOR: I read with pleasure that my great institution, Makerere University, had again made it among the first top 10 universities in sub-Saharan Africa.
EDITOR: I read with pleasure that my great institution, Makerere University, had again made it among the first top 10 universities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Since this was not the first time this achievement had been made, it signals some consistency in what the university is doing right as a great research and academic institution.
For doing us proud, I would like to join the alumni in congratulating all the staff and students who make this possible.
That said, however, I would like to express my disappointment in the way the institution has handled cleanliness and beautification campaigns on the campus. I know it is a common song for every institution's leader in Uganda to claim lack of funds.
I would like to refute this claim even before it is made. There is no reason Makerere should not rid their roads of pot-holes and pave all pedestrian walkways, plant flower hedges along pedestrian sidewalks, collect garbage on time, beautify the main gate and roundabout with distinct and glowing signposts.
There is no reason why they should not trim all lawns and reduce all dead spaces to beautiful flower trees and green, clean belts. There is no reason why they should earn bigger and more difficult awards and fail to make simple but meaningful facelifts.
Enock Musinguzi
e.musinguzi@cgiar.org
Since this was not the first time this achievement had been made, it signals some consistency in what the university is doing right as a great research and academic institution.
For doing us proud, I would like to join the alumni in congratulating all the staff and students who make this possible.
That said, however, I would like to express my disappointment in the way the institution has handled cleanliness and beautification campaigns on the campus. I know it is a common song for every institution's leader in Uganda to claim lack of funds.
I would like to refute this claim even before it is made. There is no reason Makerere should not rid their roads of pot-holes and pave all pedestrian walkways, plant flower hedges along pedestrian sidewalks, collect garbage on time, beautify the main gate and roundabout with distinct and glowing signposts.
There is no reason why they should not trim all lawns and reduce all dead spaces to beautiful flower trees and green, clean belts. There is no reason why they should earn bigger and more difficult awards and fail to make simple but meaningful facelifts.
Enock Musinguzi
e.musinguzi@cgiar.org