Students warned on immorality

By Darious Magara and Rachael Nabisubi

University students have been cautioned against immorality which may lead them to contract HIV and affect their education.

Salvatore Tumwine, the Uganda principal education officer in the East African Community (EAC) affairs, said such behaviour leads to early death hence disappointing their parents.

“Some students are careless and are having sexual relations in the name of enjoying life and being modern. They have ended up contracting the killer HIV,” he said.

Tumwine was speaking during the opening of the Inter-University Council of East African Students’ Forum at City Royale Hotel Bugolobi in Kampala recently. The meeting attracted students from various universities in East Africa.

“We as parents want you alive. We send you to university to get skills so that you can help the economy grow,” Tumwine added.

Pontien Ndabaneza, the deputy executive secretary of the Inter-University forum, said students from Uganda can make a networking body which will champion students’ issues in the region.

Aloysius Chebet, the principal education officer in the Tanzanian ministry of the East African Community affairs, said through the East Africa education system, a common curriculum was being developed to harmonise education in the region.

He said this will make it easy for students to get employed anywhere in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania.