itemprop=”headline”>“Embrace Science And Technology” – President Museveni Urges As Makerere University Celebrates 100 Years
By Roy Ruva
Posted on October 6, 2022
Academic power house Makerere University today marked 100 years of existence with a grand celebration at the University’s Freedom Square in a pompous event graced by gallant Makerereans and VIP dignitaries.
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Academic power house Makerere University today marked 100 years of existence with a grand celebration at the University’s Freedom Square in a pompous event graced by gallant Makerereans and VIP dignitaries.
Vice Chancellor Prof Barnabus Nawangwe said the university is “celebrating excellent service to humanity and is proud to have produced great statesmen and people not only in Uganda and East Africa, but even all over the rest of the continent”.
He thanked government for the funding the university receives and called for more to be injected into research as well as construction and completion of a perimeter wall and main building as well as Halls of residence and the College of Medicine.
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who was chief quest at the celebrations called for improvement in science and establish an education system that can work out an audit on why Africans have lagged behind the Europeans in the last 500 years (in science and technology). “That is why I am insisting on science and technology.”
“We always teach our people that the primer of social economic change is the development of science and technology. When man invented fire, it caused a big change in society. People moved from trees to caves…that’ is progress”. The president said.
President Yoweri Museveni speaking at the function earlier today.
Several other speakers like Deputy Speaker of Parliament Hon. Thomas Tayebwa and Magara Lorna the Chairperson Makerere University Council and Dan Kidega the Chairman Organizing Committee also talked of the University’s greatness and the role it has played in shaping important people who have become leaders in the country and across the world.
Some of the invited guests and dignitaries present included Arch Bishop of the Church of Uganda Kazimba, Secretary General of NRM Hon. Richard Todwong, Members of parliament, Army Officers, Religious Leaders and government officials.
Former Prime Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda greeting other dignitaries.
Others included representatives of the main sponsors of the event from Standard Chartered Bank, New Vision etc.
Makerere University started in January 1922 as a Technical School with only 14 bare-footed students to grow into one of the biggest universities in the world today.
Attentive:Guests at the #MakerereAt100 celebrations at Freedom Square.
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