{"id":8117,"date":"2019-02-13T18:17:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T15:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=8117"},"modified":"2019-02-13T18:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T15:22:13","slug":"muk-vc-nawangwe-strikes-again-suspends-university-guild-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/13\/muk-vc-nawangwe-strikes-again-suspends-university-guild-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"MUK VC Nawangwe Strikes Again, Suspends University Guild Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Makerere University Vice Chancellor has reportedly suspended the institutions guild elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a letter addressed to the dean of students, Professor Barnabas Nawangwe says the elections cannot go ahead with the on-gong strike by staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The elections at the university normally take place in March after a month of campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the letter, he suspended the elections to provide a &#8220;conducive environment to facilitate the process of returning the university to normalcy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The VC is in a standoff with teaching and non-teaching staff who have since refused to teach over the suspension of their colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the now controversial VC suggested suspending the school of law for allegedly inciting students to strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makerere University Vice Chancellor has reportedly suspended the institutions guild elections. According to a letter addressed to the dean of students, Professor Barnabas Nawangwe says the elections cannot go ahead with the on-gong strike by staff. The elections at the university normally take place in March after a month of campaigns. According to the letter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":8118,"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":[356,458,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-8117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-featured","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8117"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8123,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117\/revisions\/8123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}