The Kampala International University (KIU) management has suspended 16 students awaiting disciplinary proceedings following a weeklong strike that hit hard the corporate image of the higher learning institution last week.
Among the suspended students are several students pursuing courses
under the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences like bachelor of
medicine and surgery, bachelor of pharmacy, bachelor of medical
laboratory, and diploma in medical laboratory technology.
A terse statement released to the media by KIU Director of
Marketing and Public Relations, Mr Kenneth Uki yesterday said “the
university management has decided to suspend 16 ring leaders of the
boycott pending disciplinary proceedings that will resolve on their
fate.”
He said the varsity management had been patient and tolerant enough
to the students who have been warned severally without adhering to
varsity rules and regulations, to the extent that “we have come to learn
that others were not here to school but to loiter.”
Prior to the strike the management had assured the students that
the Pharmacy Council of Tanzania would in a short while grant full
registration of the courses in the faculty but they mindlessly acted
violently, causing extraordinary damage to infrastructures and other
valuables, he said.
“We even invited senior officials from the council and to address
them on those assurances but they carelessly ignored him,” the director
noted.
He listed the suspended students as Mathias P. Martine, Augustina
Rutasigwa, Wilson Samson Misinzo, Paulo Michael Mwaipamagila, Elia
Gideon and Daudi Msukwa.
Others are Angubwike N.Mwalupango, David Mberwa, Onesmo Edson,
Aloyce J. Ikangala Frank V.Majani and David Payovela, while the list of
suspensions also includes Mashauri S.Dotto, Mlay A.Gabriel, Augustine
Martine and Kizigha Garrington Shedrack.
Addressing journalists on Wednesday, Uki said although the full
registration of the courses had been delayed, the university had
provisional registration to run the courses.
Other courses are diploma in clinical medicine, diploma in
pharmacy, certificate in clinical assistantship, certificate in medical
laboratory science and certificate in pharmacy.
However a statement signed by the KIU Vice-Chancellor, Prof
Mohammed Ndaula on provisional registration cited a letter from the
Pharmacy Council of Tanzania, Re: AB 300/321/05 allowing the university
to offer diploma in pharmacy technology and bachelor of pharmacy
courses.
Another letter he cited came from the Medical Council of
Tanganyika, Re: AB 209/296011/76 allowing the university to offer
bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery courses
The KIU director of marketing stated that the university had
submitted all the requirements for full registration to the respective
authorities, but there were some delays that had little to do with the
university management or students.
He emphasized that students are paying in local currency and not in
foreign currency as had been alleged by some students, noting further
that the fees were in the same range as other local universities
offering the same courses.
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