Students sit for a law pre-entry exam recently at Makerere University, Uganda. Public universities lecturers have given the government three-month ultimatum to increase their pay by 100 percent or they down their tools on August 1, 2023. FILE PHOTO | MONITOR | NMG
Lecturers in public universities in Uganda have threatened to go on a sit-down strike if the government fails to implement the presidential directive of enhancing salaries of academic staff in the institutions.
According to an April 25 letter from the University Professional and Academic Staff Union (UPASU), addressed to the Minister of Public Service, the staff have given the government three months (from May 1 to August 1) to enhance the salaries of lecturers to 100 percent.
