Makerere University students have violently demonstrated on the roads around their institution of learning because they have not been paid their faculty allowances and internship allowance.

The demonstration made the police to heavily deploy at all the gates of Makerere University, schools, colleges and offices for fear that the rioting students would burn them.

The striking students demanded their Vice Chancellor, Prof. Venansious Baryamureba to explain why the university has not paid them their allowances. The striking students abused the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Makerere University in charge of finance, Prof Stevens Tickodri-Togboa when he requested them to call off the strike. They likened him to a chimpanzee while others described him as a ‘silly’ person.’ The professor politely kept quiet.

The outgoing guild president ofMakerereUniversity, Dennis Oneka confirms the strike. Oneka also requested the students to call off the strike as the university looks into their problems.