Kutesa the politician and mentor

After successfully breaking the lecturers' strike recently, State House has moved in to ensure that NRM cadres take up crucial positions in the recalcitrant Makerere University Academic Staff Association (MUASA).

The election of new office bearers for MUASA is slated for Tuesday.
As you read this, State House is backing Dr Chris Tuhirirwe for the chair to replace Dr Augustus Nuwagaba. The juicy part of the story is that Dr. Tuhirirwe is a new NRM convert who was baptised during a meeting at State House.

During the meetings to break the strike, NRM cadres reportedly agreed with the President Museveni that they should hold strategic positions in the university administration. Grapevine has been told that Mzee took the matter seriously and State House is now financing its 'candidates' in the MUASA elections.

According to Grapevine operatives at State House, a huge amount of cash has already been given out to NRM leaning lecturers to vote out 'opposition' incumbents. Dr. Nuwagaba is perceived as an FDC sympathiser. He is also accused of leading lecturers to defy the President's order to call off the strike last year.

It's rumoured that Dr Nyakana, Chris Tuhirirwe and Prof. Venance Baryamureeba (Dean of IT) have been meeting with Mzee at Nakasero to sort out the financial problems of the NRM cadres at Makerere ahead of the MUASA elections.
Dr Nyakana and Dr Barya who are new NRM converts have already taken up posts in the University Council.

We also hear the salary increment that was promised to lecturers before they called off their strike might be a wild goose chase. The document that contained promises of the said money was reportedly drafted by Baryamureeba and Amelia Kyambadde, not the University Council as it had been earlier claimed in the statement.
Perhaps it's because Makerere dons build for the future. They have little business concerning themselves with the present.

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