The Makerere university visitation committee under the leadership of Dr. Abel Rwendeire has today kicked off the head count exercise to find out the number of students at the ivory tower.
According to Dr. Rwendeire, the committee chairperson, this exercise will run for three weeks, and students are expected to turn up to be counted at their convenience considering they have examinations in the next one week.
Speaking to the press at the campus this morning, the chairman said the exercise is meant to ease the planning process for the university.
Students are also required carry identification documents including National ID, and admission letters to be verified and counted as real Makerere university students.
“We have made this exercise flexible, the idea is not to catch people either on or not, the idea is to make sure that the numbers do exist. In other words, make the system flexible enough to allow the students to come at any one time in these three weeks with the documentation that indicates that they are students” Dr. Rwendeire said.
He added; “I think this is also in the best interest of the students and particularly we definitely want to see that they are provided for by the facilities they require either in the labs or workshops and so on. So we do not require them to be there all at once, no it is going to be an ongoing exercise for the next three weeks and we want to make it in such a way that there is no need for lining up.”
He called upon parents and guardians to encourage their children to be a part of this exercise so as to be properly planned for.
President Yoweri Museveni appointed a 9 man committee in November last year to investigate and make an inquiry into the affairs of Makerere University which had been closed a week before, following a lecturers’ strike.
The committee is comprised of Dr. Abel Rwendeire, the chairman, deputized by Lady Justice Keturah Katunguka.
Other members are Hon. Tim Lwanga, Dr. Florence Muranga, Dr. Proscovia Namubiru Sentamu, Mr. John F. S. Muwanga, Dr. Paul Musasizi, Dr. Kisoro and Eng. Lumu.
