The striking staff argue that it is unjust for individuals with similar qualifications to receive vastly different salaries, with some Makerere staff earning only half of what their counterparts in other institutions are paid.
As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. Makerere University by academic year 1991/1992 had sunk to its lowest, with a generally highly dilapidated physical plant and low-ebb academic standards, mainly due to severe lack of finances to rehabilitate and rejuvenate the university. Flows of financial and other resources from government were just too low, too uncertain and too irregular to maintain and sustain both the physical and academic infrastructures in the university.
Prof. Edward Kirumira, the Principal of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences CHUSS, says government will never and should not fully fund public universities because it results into dependency which is unreliable.
The Academic staff unanimously resolved to lay down their tools this afternoon in a highly charged assembly convened by Makerere University Academic Staff Association-MUASA.
Due to a strike by the non-teaching staff in public universities, the university management after consultation with the chairperson of the university council has extended the opening of first year students from 6th August to Saturday 13th August. Prof John Ddumba Ssentamu, Makerere University Vice Chancellor.
