Police on Monday fired teargas and shot bullets into Makerere University striking students. This was the second time Makerere University students went on strike, protesting against a policy which requires them to pay over 60% of their tuition fees in the first week of the semester.

According to the administration of Makerere University, the 60% tuition policy was formed by the Makerere university council reportedly in partnership with statehouse and the ministry of education and sports.

However the policy has triggered students’ strikes in the course of its implementation. But the oldest University in Uganda still defends its tuition policy, saying it is aimed at enabling the smooth running of Makerere University (commonly known as the Harvard University of Africa).

And some sources in the office of the Vice Chancellor of Makerere University, Professor John Ddumba-Ssentamu told us that their investigations reveal that some politicians and enemies of the university ‘bought’ some of the students’ leaders to moblise the students’ community to stage demonstrations.

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