Uganda: Striking Mak Students to Undergo Drugs Test

21 November 2017

Kampala — Makerere University students, who engage in violent acts during demonstrations, will upon arrest by police be subjected to drug test, the institution's Vice Chancellor has said.

Prof Barnabas Nawangwe said aggressive conduct by some students, including toppling kiosks, looting groceries from uninsured shops, assaulting passersby or non-conformist colleagues and staging roadblocks where they extort money from motorists, cannot be explained away just as "bad manners".

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