Makerere vice-chancellor dismisses claims he is a dictator

Makerere University Vice-Chancellor Professor Barnabas Nawangwe has said when he assumed office in September 2017, the university had significantly deteriorated in discipline, with some deans behaving wrongly, writes Umar Kashaka for New Vision.

“Discipline had greatly deteriorated at Makerere because there were too many power centres at schools and faculties and some deans were even more powerful than the vice-chancellor. They could do all kinds of things and nobody could say a word [to them] and that was giving a university a terrible image,” he said on Saturday 28 May during a weekly Urban TV morning talk show Press Wall.

“So what we set out to do is to restore discipline and restoring discipline is not dictatorship. Some people think Makerere is a political organisation, but even political organisations have discipline; they even suspend and expel members. We are supposed to be the most disciplined institution maybe after the army because we are dealing with very serious business,” he said, dismissing claims that he is a dictator.
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