The Bold headed killer dictator Yosweri Mucebeni Kaguta will NO doubt blink!
he always does when his back is on to the wall!!.. I bet you he is now trying
some avenue to "save face"..or back peddle! such is his nature. The pressure on
the Regime to re-open MUK is no doubt welcomed!
Mk
Uganda: Queen Elizabeth Petitioned Over Makerere Closure
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The New Times (Kigali)
November 18, 2006
Posted to the web November 19, 2006
Norman S. Miwambo
London
The crisis at Uganda's leading University, Makerere, took an interesting
twist when Ugandans living in London on November 16, sent a petition to Queen
Elizabeth II.
The Ugandans, graduates of Makerere, one of Africa's most prestigious
universities sent similar petitions to Commonwealth member states and the
African Union, denouncing the closure, which they say, will irreparably harm
students' academic pursuits. The petition was delivered in the name of Makerere
University Old Students (MUOS), which represents former graduates of the
institution. The 84 year-old university, the largest institution of higher
education in East Africa has not experienced this kind of abrupt closure in a
long time. "We are expressing our total condemnation in the strongest terms
over the government's systematic and deliberate violation of Ugandans' right to
higher education," reads the petition, signed by Rashid Kasaato, the MOUS
Secretary and Chairman, Prince Dickson Wasajja. A copy has been forwarded to
the Speaker of Uganda's Parliament, Edward Sekandi. "This has left the future
of hardworking Ugandan parents and their bright children in an
indeterminate state," adds the petition. Queen Elizabeth II is scheduled to
travel to Uganda next year to open the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit.
The East African country has been under intense scrutiny, even as government
there negotiates with rebels to end 20 years of civil war. "This is lack of
goodwill and above all, the deliberate and continuous destruction policy of
higher education are all unforgivable and crimes against humanity," Kasaato
says, in an interview with The News Times.
MUOS blames the failure to reach a pact over pay rates between Makerere
professors and the government to "the government's systematic education
failures, arrogance and bullying of Makerere University teaching staff."
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"Under government's supervision, students have consistently been exploited by
imposing on them exorbitant tuition fees," adds Kasaato.
Added Prince Dickson Wasajja: "We have taken this avenue to petition to the
Commonwealth and the African Union because all those institutions advocate for
education for its citizens."
Both Kasaato and Prince Wasajja say the unilateral closure of Makerere
violates the Ugandan Constitution which holds that education is a fundamental
human right-moreover, education is also enshrined in the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights and the International Human Rights Covenants, 'which have force
of international law'. Makerere University was closed on November 13, following
a lectures strike over pay.
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