Over the years the country’s higher institutions of learnings’ electoral politics have been marred by religion, tribal or partisan politics. During the races, several political parties rush to field candidates for the Guild presidential race while destroying the integrity of students.
Being a guild president at the university means one’s political career gates are open for higher political office even after university, therefore students become more interested in serving the interest of political parties that sponsored their campaign to better their feature political careers other than serving the interest of their fellow students.
Most opposition party camps within higher institutions are known for mobilizing their fellow students along ethnic and tribal outfits, defiance, activism and inciting violence ideologies as per the principle in their mother party which cements divisions among the many cosmopolitan students.
During the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party candidate, Salim Were alias Papa’s tenure as Makerere guild president, the University was marred by strikes Violence and endless protest, he achieved this by satisfy his selfish interest of appeasing his finance master Rtd Col Dr Kizza Besigye who believes if nothing but violence.
Instead of unifying fellow students by improving their academic environment, guild presidents use the platform is sawing the culture activism, fueling strikes, fighting with other political opponents spreading fear and tension among innocent students with an ultimate aim of advocating for regime change.
Institutions of higher learning should be the epitome of research and knowledge, not a nursery bed for violence, which stipulates threat to our country, these same people sawing division among themselves now will be vying for higher political posts in the near years to come, and will reap what they were sawing .
If we are to have a prosperous future for our country Uganda by mentoring harmonious leaders, we must scrap party politics that is embedded with ethnic tribal and religious divisions in higher institutions of learning.