25/10/2019
"Julius Kateregga" (Makerere guild president)
Friends,
I greet you all. The struggle is alive. None of our demands have been met. Several of our colleagues, including me and the Guild Speaker are still detained at Wandegeya Police Station. I commend you all for peacefully standing up for what is Just even when you are faced with blackmail and intimidation of suspensions from Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe.
If you dearly feel that the demand for affordable Education is a fundamental right for you or anyone that you know of: your friends, your neighbors, your family, both current and future generations then you have reason to rise up tomorrow.
I'm informed that plain clothed security operatives continue to torment students in their rooms, and that some have been brutally tortured and admitted to medical facilities. From now on, stay calm, but be intelligent. Self-defence is no offence.
Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe clearly stated that it was President Yoweri Museveni who instructed him to exorbitantly hike tuition fees. Let him return to President Museveni and inform him that WE REJECT the increment and demand its immediate halt. Why does it have to bother him and not the President when we demonstrate against the increment if he was only a messenger? Why doesn't he leave way for the President to intervene in the matter?
Our demands still stand:
1. Immediate reinstatement of all suspended students and those detained behind cells
2. Immediate halting of the Cumulative 15% tuition policy
3.Immediate degazzetement of the Guild Electoral Reforms
4. Immediate improvements in sanitation of Halls of Residence
There shall be no negotiations with colleagues on suspension and some in detention.
In the regard, the peaceful demonstrations continue tomorrow