The Joint Staff Association were scheduled to meet at 2pm today to vote on a motion to lay down their tools over the university's failure to fullfill a pay package demand.

Staff at Makerere University at tip-toeing about and casting furtive glances at anything around them after word filtered in that some of their members face imminent arrests over a planned strike.

The Joint Staff Association were scheduled to meet at 2pm today to vote on a motion to lay down their tools over the university's failure to fullfill a pay package demand.

But sources at the institution say the staff were tipped off earlier in the morning that security was moving in on their planned meeting.

The planned strike comes as President Museveni is scheduled to be at Makerere tomorrow for a raft of events that includng the installation of the Chancellor Dr Crispus Kiyonga, reopening of the refrurbished Main Building and Lumumba Hall and and the new School of Law building.

But the joint staff also planned for their strike to coincide with the event and to pre-empt it all, security is said to have got down to work.

Sources say the Special Forces Command (SFC) are not taking chances with anything related to strikes when it involves the presence of the head of state.

However, the Nile Post has yet to get a comment from SFC on the said movements inside the leafy Hill that is Makerere.