More than 1,500 support staff at Makerere University are demanding for explanations after the appointment of staff in disregard of known recruitment procedures. They accuse management of conducting discriminatory promotions and recruitments.
Peter Okello, the General Secretary National Union of Education Institution-NUEI Makerere Branch, argues that the promotions and recruitments have been ongoing but with exclusion of Support Staff in the University, which contravenes Section 5.13 (a) of the University Human Resource Manual of 2009, Section 6(3) of the Uganda Employment Act, 2006 and Article 21 (2) of the Ugandan Constitution.
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