Buganda Institute students strike, block Bulange entrance
ABOUT 300 students of Buganda Royal Institute of Business and Technical Education in Mengo yesterday stormed the Buganda parliament at Bulange and blocked the main gate.
By Eddie Ssejjoba
ABOUT 300 students of Buganda Royal Institute of Business and Technical Education in Mengo yesterday stormed the Buganda parliament at Bulange and blocked the main gate.
The students, some holding sticks and branches, braved the rain, as they subjected entrants to a thorough search in the incident that started at 8:00am.
Sources said they extorted money from some motorists and demanded that the Kabaka sacks the katikkiro, Emmanuel Ssendaula, the chairman of the Mutesa I Royal University, Ssebaana Kizito and other officials.
About four armed policemen and an army man looked on as the students stopped most of the vehicles from entering Bulange.
They also diverted traffic on the Kisingiri Road, forcing some motorists to use other routes.
A number of officials from Bulange and staff of the Central Broadcasting Station, including Abu Kawenja, sped off to avoid the commotion.
The angry students, however, allowed Kagimu Kiwanuka, the state minister for economic monitoring, to pass by their ‘check point.’
They said the university had erected some tents at the school and ordered some of them out of their classrooms to allow students of the Mutesa I Royal University to use them.
They chased away some of the Mutesa University students in the morning and threatened to burn the university property. They said the university council, headed by Kizito and the vice-chancellor, Prof. Munaku Kaama Nsereko, had recruited students without putting up any structures.
The students complained that due to shortage of facilities, boys were sharing dormitories with girls, which had increased immorality at the institute.
They added that some of them studied under trees.
“The facilities in place are not enough for all of us. We fear this is a plan to displace us yet we paid fees to study,†the students shouted.
They demanded that the university branch be relocated to the University campus in Masaka.
The guild president, Aisha Nansubuga, and her cabinet of 14 ministers were later allowed to meet the katikkiro.
The Buganda minister for education, Masagazi Masaazi, and Edward Ochom, the regional Police commander, Kampala Extra,
ABOUT 300 students of Buganda Royal Institute of Business and Technical Education in Mengo yesterday stormed the Buganda parliament at Bulange and blocked the main gate.
The students, some holding sticks and branches, braved the rain, as they subjected entrants to a thorough search in the incident that started at 8:00am.
Sources said they extorted money from some motorists and demanded that the Kabaka sacks the katikkiro, Emmanuel Ssendaula, the chairman of the Mutesa I Royal University, Ssebaana Kizito and other officials.
About four armed policemen and an army man looked on as the students stopped most of the vehicles from entering Bulange.
They also diverted traffic on the Kisingiri Road, forcing some motorists to use other routes.
A number of officials from Bulange and staff of the Central Broadcasting Station, including Abu Kawenja, sped off to avoid the commotion.
The angry students, however, allowed Kagimu Kiwanuka, the state minister for economic monitoring, to pass by their ‘check point.’
They said the university had erected some tents at the school and ordered some of them out of their classrooms to allow students of the Mutesa I Royal University to use them.
They chased away some of the Mutesa University students in the morning and threatened to burn the university property. They said the university council, headed by Kizito and the vice-chancellor, Prof. Munaku Kaama Nsereko, had recruited students without putting up any structures.
The students complained that due to shortage of facilities, boys were sharing dormitories with girls, which had increased immorality at the institute.
They added that some of them studied under trees.
“The facilities in place are not enough for all of us. We fear this is a plan to displace us yet we paid fees to study,†the students shouted.
They demanded that the university branch be relocated to the University campus in Masaka.
The guild president, Aisha Nansubuga, and her cabinet of 14 ministers were later allowed to meet the katikkiro.
The Buganda minister for education, Masagazi Masaazi, and Edward Ochom, the regional Police commander, Kampala Extra,