{"id":35307,"date":"2022-08-09T19:43:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/makerere-students-vow-to-hold-deferred-elections-today"},"modified":"2022-08-09T19:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:52:43","slug":"makerere-students-vow-to-hold-deferred-elections-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/makerere-students-vow-to-hold-deferred-elections-today","title":{"rendered":"Makerere students vow to hold deferred elections today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Makerere University students\u2019 leaders are gearing up to hold elections today, despite the Council banning politics in the university after the death of a student during last month\u2019s campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Bewatti Betungura, a student of Uganda Christian University, was stabbed during campaigns and died at the university hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Shamim Nambassa, the outgoing guild president, yesterday said the decision comes after the university\u2019s failure to fulfill its commitment on conducting polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a week since we started writing letters to them addressing different issues. There was a meeting with the select committee and they promised to get back to us on Thursday last week, which they never did,\u201d Ms Nambassa told this reporter when contacted.<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cSo it appears as if everyone is doing their own things. As a students\u2019 body, we are going ahead to organise ourselves and we set our elections for Tuesday (today) regardless of what the university may want to come up with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, all guild aspirants, the electoral commission and outgoing guild president, held a private meeting to discuss a way forward.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Kelvin Luyombya, the secretary to Students\u2019 Committee, and Mr Lawrence Alionz, one of the aspirants for guild president, claimed that in the meeting, the electoral commission confirmed to them about their readiness to hold the elections whenever the university was ready.<\/p>\n<p>On July 15, the University Council suspended all guild elections and disbanded the guild indefinitely following bloody campaigns after the chaos.<\/p>\n<p><b>University says<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mr Yusuf Kiranda, the Makerere University Secretary, however, yesterday, told Monitor that they are not aware of the students\u2019 planned election.<\/p>\n<p>He said the committee is working hard to deliver its report on investigations regarding last month\u2019s bloody campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Makerere University students\u2019 leaders are gearing up to hold elections today, despite the Council banning politics in the university after the death of a student during last month\u2019s campaigns. Bewatti Betungura, a student of Uganda Christian University, was stabbed during campaigns and died at the university hospital. 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