Makerere University workers at halls of residences have hailed the students strike at Makerere University that paralysed work at the institution and destroyed property worth millions of shillings.

The students on Monday gone on strike demanding the university administrators to review the newly passed policies of banning meals in halls of residence and a 10% tuition fees increment every academic year.

The angry students marched from the Freedom Square; a place located in the heart of Makerere University to the university’s main gate and shut it. They slaped some of the policemen they found there.

The striking students told journalists that the 4000 shillings that Makerere University was planning to give them as compensation for meals is too small.

Makerere University management in June 2014 asked the university council to raise accommodation and feeding fees with effect from August. The workers at the university told us that they supported the strike because banning meals at halls of residence meant rendering them jobless.

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