{UAH} MAKERERE UNIVERSITY CLOSURE IS AN ANTI-DEFIANCE STRATEGY

MAKERERE UNIVERSITY CLOSURE IS AN ANTI-DEFIANCE STRATEGY

Uganda's military dictator, Museveni has ordered for the indefinite closure of Makerere university.  This follows a sit-down strike by lectures who are demanding for their eight months pay.  Consequently, the students went on strike demanding to have their lecturers.  As usual the police brutally moved in and embarked on brutalizing the students culminating into violent scenes.  This development comes amidst a tense political and economic situation in the country and Kampala city in particular.

The opposition pro-change political activists Defiance campaign is gaining popularity and strength both in the country and Kampala city in particular.  The Defiance campaign is premised on mobilizing the masses to regain their power that is currently usurped by the regime.  The regime has responded with brutal force against any form of activism against the unrelenting activists.  The situation is ripe for such mass action and the regime is overstretched in containing it.  Kampala city where Makerere University is located is a bed rose of opposition and the regime has overtime desperately failed to win it over.  Traditionally Makerere University has always been dominated by the opposition ideology by embracing opposition message.  Just two days ago when the regime brutally arrested and detained the City Council Councillor for Makerere University, Doreen Nyanjura, the same students from the university stormed the police station demanding for her release and the police had to give in.  However, this particular incident renewed the regime's eye opening on the university with regard to Defiance.

The regime strongly believes that the advocates of the Defiance campaign are up to a sinister scheme of mobilising the population to match and take over strategic government installations like Nakasero State House, City Square, Parliament etc. the Arab Spring way.  Makerere University students would compose a vital task force to handle such a move.  Its for the same reasons that yesterday as the violent strike was taking place at Makerere, in the city center the Police was engaging the main pro-defiance leader, Dr. Besigye.  Because it could not afford to handle the two incidents concurrently but more so the fear that the later could fuel the former, it left him off the hook. The regime believes that the ongoing Makerere crisis is linked to the opposition Defiance campaign.  Its for this sole reason that Museveni had to move very fast and close the university before sending the students home. For the same reason, the regime has ordered the closure of private hostels for students which are located outside the university so as to suffocate ease of mobility in the event of mass protests.  For the Defiance campaign, its a blow because the university students composed a potential special force in the event of defiant mass protests the y are advocating for.  Why didn't Museveni send in soldiers to lecture the students in place of the striking Lecturers?

INFORMATION IS POWER AND DEFIANCE IS THE WAY TO GO

Posted by Uganda - A Change of Guards

Viele GruBe

Robukui

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