Makerere University administration has bowed to students\u2019 pressure and announced a halt on the 15% cumulative tuition increment that had led students protests in the last couple of days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This revelation was made earlier today at a press conference at the University where the acting VC, Umar Kakumba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This comes after over four days of striking by students over the 15% tuition increment that was earlier announced by the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many students however remain locked up for striking while others have been suspended from the University over the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Most students who participated in the strike were discontinued from studying in the previous years, they only turn up when there\u2019s a strike, they want to stir violence. They are nolonger our students, some belong to different opposition groups,” acting MAK VC, Umar Kakumba said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Makerere University administration has bowed to students\u2019 pressure and announced a halt on the 15% cumulative tuition increment that had led students protests in the last couple of days. This revelation was made earlier today at a press conference at the University where the acting VC, Umar Kakumba. This comes after over four days of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10448,"featured_media":11824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[432,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-11823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"\n