Lumumba non-residents badly need their allowance

Nov 07, 2007

EDITOR—All government-sponsored non-resident students in public universities in Uganda are entitled to living-out allowance. But it is amazing that Lumumba hall non-residents have not yet been paid this allowance. When the office of Lumumba’s warden was burnt we were told that the living-out a

EDITOR—All government-sponsored non-resident students in public universities in Uganda are entitled to living-out allowance. But it is amazing that Lumumba hall non-residents have not yet been paid this allowance. When the office of Lumumba’s warden was burnt we were told that the living-out allowance forms we had filled had been burnt also.

My worry is that the delay of our allowances might be part of the blanket punishment being meted on us for the burning of the warden’s office. I plead with the Lumumba and university administrators that the suspects behind the burning of the office have already been identified.

It is very clear that we are not just greedy. We badly need the money because we have suffered enough humiliation from our landlords who wanted to be paid before mid-semester yet the semester is almost over.
We also request our landlords to sympathise with us because it is very clear the situation is not of our own making.

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