Student leader dies in riot
May 18, 2003
What A Week!<br>THE week started off with heart-rending news from Western Uganda
What A Week!
By Joan Mugenzi
THE week started off with heart-rending news from Western Uganda. Students of St. Augustan Secondary School in Rutenga lost their headprefect, Joel Kamanyire, in a riot.
The students attacked Rutenga sub-county headquarters to rescue a colleague, Mugisha, who was arrested over defilement of a fellow student.
The students were armed with pangas, sticks and stones and they beat up a police constable. The constable fired a bullet to scare off the students, and in the process attracted firing from the other officers. This firing got to the students. Other students injured in the riot are Thursday Narasesiyo, who was shot in the stomach and Lydia Bampambire, who was shot in the leg.
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Getting government sponsorship to a high institution of learning is getting more tricky each academic year. Just as students were cheering about halting the quota system, government cut down the number of state scholarships.
Other than the traditional 2000 students that government usually sponsors, this time round, they have settled for 1,417.
The social services committee head, Dorothy Hyuha, said government had on several occasions failed to meet its obligation to Makerere, which has forced the university to set high tuition fees for the private students to cover the deficits.
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Districts have failed to account for over sh23bn given for classroom construction under the Schools Facility Grant (SFG) between 1998 and 2001.
The biggest defaulter is Mbale district with sh1.1bn outstanding. Francis Lubanga, Education PS, said that despite several reminders, some Chief Administrative Officers (CAOs) had refused to comply, while others submitted accountability rejected by auditors for lack of supportive documents.
Other districts with outstanding debts include Masindi, Kasese, Lira, Iganga, Gulu, Kabale, Bushenyi and Luweero.
The World Bank has opposed government decision to scrap the construction and instructional materials units in the Ministry of Education. It also opposed the proposal that part of the UPE capitation grants be set aside to facilitate district inspectors of schools.
Paud Murphy, the bank’s education specialist, told the education sector review workshop here in Kampala that the units had played crucial roles in monitoring classroom construction and textbooks procurement.
By Joan Mugenzi
THE week started off with heart-rending news from Western Uganda. Students of St. Augustan Secondary School in Rutenga lost their headprefect, Joel Kamanyire, in a riot.
The students attacked Rutenga sub-county headquarters to rescue a colleague, Mugisha, who was arrested over defilement of a fellow student.
The students were armed with pangas, sticks and stones and they beat up a police constable. The constable fired a bullet to scare off the students, and in the process attracted firing from the other officers. This firing got to the students. Other students injured in the riot are Thursday Narasesiyo, who was shot in the stomach and Lydia Bampambire, who was shot in the leg.
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Getting government sponsorship to a high institution of learning is getting more tricky each academic year. Just as students were cheering about halting the quota system, government cut down the number of state scholarships.
Other than the traditional 2000 students that government usually sponsors, this time round, they have settled for 1,417.
The social services committee head, Dorothy Hyuha, said government had on several occasions failed to meet its obligation to Makerere, which has forced the university to set high tuition fees for the private students to cover the deficits.
* * * *
Districts have failed to account for over sh23bn given for classroom construction under the Schools Facility Grant (SFG) between 1998 and 2001.
The biggest defaulter is Mbale district with sh1.1bn outstanding. Francis Lubanga, Education PS, said that despite several reminders, some Chief Administrative Officers (CAOs) had refused to comply, while others submitted accountability rejected by auditors for lack of supportive documents.
Other districts with outstanding debts include Masindi, Kasese, Lira, Iganga, Gulu, Kabale, Bushenyi and Luweero.
The World Bank has opposed government decision to scrap the construction and instructional materials units in the Ministry of Education. It also opposed the proposal that part of the UPE capitation grants be set aside to facilitate district inspectors of schools.
Paud Murphy, the bank’s education specialist, told the education sector review workshop here in Kampala that the units had played crucial roles in monitoring classroom construction and textbooks procurement.