Kirabo: The Little Known Face of the Makerere Fees Increment Strike

Kirabo went to Kampala Kindergarten for nursery and Kampala Parents before switching to City Parents Primary School in Nakulabye, where she sat her Primary Leaving Examinations and obtained 8 aggregates in 2009.

Ecweru noted that unlike other people decorated as heroes, Omeda remained faithful to government. He noted that it was very unfortunate for government to ignore such a person.

As the fighting and firing of teargas at Makerere scales down, there’s one voice whose lone idea was ignored as the University passed the now controversial fees policy last year. It is this policy that triggered a strike on October 22, which has since turned violent, with a joint force of the military and the police personnel raiding students’ halls of residence and battering those suspected to be part of the strike. Perhaps all this could have been avoided had Makerere listened to one lone voice, that of Marion Kirabo, a 23-year-old student of Law at the university. Kirabo, now in her 4th year of study, may not be a household name but she has been a leading voice on the “tuition must fall” campaign.

The Prime Minister of ICU, Paul Sande Emolot says Omeda should be decorated a Nation Hero since he fought for the peace and development of Teso and the entire country.

Steven Ochola, Omeda’s nephew who is also former MP for Serere County says Omeda has been sick for a while. He says Omeda’s condition deteriorated last year after undergoing heart surgery and other health complications including mild stroke that put him down for months.

Kayanja says the factions and disagreements started in the 2016 elections when some party members decided to act independently.

According to Kasole, he was picked up in a Mercedes Benz dispatched by State house escorted by two heavily protected vehicles. Kasole says he kept asking himself what could have landed him in trouble and remembered a Luganda proverb ‘Bakuyita embuga si buganzi’ loosely translated as ‘Being summoned by people of authority is not necessarily a good thing’.