Galogitho rises from the ashes of Makerere's Ivory Tower

Brilliant and with a bright future then, Galogitho speaks in 1996 before
he was expelled into poverty

📌 Makerere University Guild Presidents since Independence

✳️ 1962/63    Matthew Rukikaire 

✳️ 1962/64    

✳️ 1964/65    Shija Kaloba

✳️ 1965/66    Akiiki Mujaju

✳️ 1966/67    Paul Nyambala

✳️ 1967/68    Noa Miguda

✳️ 1968/69    John Butime

✳️ 1969/70    Anyang Nyong'o

✳️ 1970/71    James Ekwaro

✳️ 1971/72    Tumusiime Mutebire

✳️ 1972/73    Olara Otunnu

✳️ 1973-1978     NO ELECTIONS

✳️ 1979   *****     Ndamurani Ateenyi 

✳️ 1980   ****      Whelikhe Watuwa

✳️ 1980/81    Opiyo Oloya

✳️ 1981-83    NO ELECTIONS

✳️ 1983/84    Badru Sebyala

✳️ 1984/85    Otunnu-Ogenga

✳️ 1985/86    George Okurapa

✳️ 1986/87    Mugabe Semayizi

✳️ 1987/88    Julian Njuba

✳️ 1988/89    Andrew Kasura

✳️ 1989/90    Wilbrod H. Owor

✳️ 1990/91    Nobert Mao

✳️ 1991/92     Emma Dombo

✳️ 1992/93    Charles Rwomushana

✳️ 1993/94    David Kazungu

✳️ 1994/95    Issa Taligoola

✳️ 1995/96    James Opoka

✳️ 1996/97    Stephen Galogitho

✳️ 1997/98    Sarah Kagingo

✳️ 1998/99    Peter Ojur

✳️ 1999/20     Ronnie Mukuye

✳️ 2000/01    Asuman Basalirwa

✳️ 2001/02    Mukasa Mbidde

✳️ 2002/03    Dennis Okema

✳️ 2003/04    Yusuf Kiranda

✳️ 2004/05    Ronald Mukasa

✳️ 2005/06    Henry Maurice Kibalya

✳️ 2006/07    Gerald Karuhanga

✳️ 2007/08    Susan Abbo

✳️ 2008/09    Robert Rutaro

✳️ 2009/10    Shaban senkubuge

✳️ 2010/11    Robert Okware

✳️ 2011/12    Denis Onekalit

✳️ 2012/13     Ivan Kata

✳️ 2013/14     Anna Adeke

✳️ 2014/15     Ivan Bwowe 

✳️ 2015/16   David Bala

✳️ 2016/17    Roy Ssemboga

✳️ 2017/18    Paul Kato

✳️ 2018/19      Papa Were Salim  

✳️ 2019/2020    Julius Kateregga

✳️ 2020/2021    

**SOURCE: Student Power in Africa's Higher Education: A Case of Makerere University by Frederick K. Byaruhanga (can be bought on Amazon)

Galogitho is the symbolic “short tower” of Makerere that was burned 25 years ago, but has laid in ruins ever since. He is symbolic of Makerere’s history that went up in flames and urgently needs restoration. 

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Stephen Renny Galogitho had already defied all the odds by the time he walked into Makerere, where he had been admitted to do Medicine – and he was not yet done.

A fewyears later, the petit but smart talking ex-Seminarian had charmed Makerereans, to become in 1996 only the second student from Padhola (West Budama) in Tororo to become a guild president at Uganda's highest centre of learning.

He joined a similarly short list of stars from the original Tororo to have taken the highly contested Guild presidency.  These included Emmanuel Dombo, now a former MP and the NRM party's communications head, and  the towering Wilbrod Owor (B.COM) also from West Budama, whose oratory skills took him to the top 'job' at Makerere. 

Wilbrod is the son of Kwar Adhola Moses Stephen Owor, and is currently the Executive Director of the powerful Uganda Bankers Association.

Galogitho and Wilbrod Owor were both from St Peters College (TC). Those were the years TC used to punch at the same weight as Kampala's giants, sending close to hundreds to the University annually. Those numbers counted when Wilbrod and Galogitho contested.

Others from the greater Tororo area were Taligola, Robert Okware and  Susan Abbo, who like Galogitho and Owor, are from West Budama. She now works in President's office. 

Elsewhere, another son of Tororo Yoga Adhola had earlier made it as Guild President of Nairobi University. Yoga Adhola was later among the founding members of FRONASA and Editor of the People's Newspaper.

Wilbrod H Owor

Susan Abbo

The Makerere University that Galogitho was student leader of was alma mater to many post-independence African leaders , including Ugandan president Milton Obote and Tanzanian presidents Julius Nyerere and Benjamin Mkapa. The former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila, and Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki are also Makerere alumni.

By becoming  Guild President,  Galogitho joined a long list of some of the countries best brains, all of them future national leaders when they made their first steps in Makerere. The list includes former Minister Matthew Rukikaire and  Mutebile, current BOU governor, Many who have served as guild presidents have gone on to contest for national positions.

The list has Dr Olara Otunnu who once served as the UN under-secretary General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict. He served as Uganda Peoples Congress president for five years only to ‘retire from politics’ in 2015.

Then there is Prof Anyang Nyong’o, now governor of Kisumu County, Kenya and Norbert Mao, current President of DP who took over from Wilbrod Owor. Others are politicians Asuman Basalirwa, and Rwomushana who first proposed the Needy Students Work Scheme in place of the scrapped student’s allowances called 'Boom'. It is the same 'needy students' ticket that Galigitho used to ride to victory.

Abu Mayanja, expelled at Makerere,
sent to England

That however marked the start of the end for Galogitho. He soon led a strike in an open fight against government, demanding that all students are supported after they get to 'The Hill'.

At that  time, the government had considered introducing cost-sharing measures and planned to abolish free university education for the best students in the country, a move that Galogitho opposed as a student leader.

The administration reacted worse than the colonialists ever did before them, and expelled Galogitho and several of his colleagues. Most of his colleagues eventually returned to study, but Galogitho had no one to lobby for him. 

It can be recalled that when Abu Mayanja was expelled from Makerere during the 50s after a students strike over food, the colonialists acknowledged his brilliance, and instead gave him a scholarship to study in the UK.

In his the book "Student Power in Africa: A case of Makerere University", Frederick K. Byaruhanga  says that 1950s Vice Chancellor Sir Bernard de Bunsen used his connections within the Governor's office to obtain scholarships for the expelled students to study abroad, because he considered them 'young men of real worth'. Those that had been expeled were Uganda's Abu Mayanja, Josephat Karanja, Isaac Omolo and Said Hamdun from Kenya.

All attempts by Galogitho to continue his studies in other universities were frustrated by the current NRM government.

He was ruined. He returned to the village, until the Makerere Univeristy tower burned down one night in September this year - 25 years later. He posted a comment on facebook about the tragedy, his former colleagues spotted the post. He was fished out, and the rest is history!

Galogitho after he was fished out by his colleagues
who started a funds drive 

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 THE sad stories of the past 25 years (click to read story)

Galogitho: Makerere buried me alive 

Galo Githo: A student icon, an activist who paid the price fighting social injustice 

Galogitho: Mak’s short tower in need of rebuilding

Galo Githo bounces back from the raging flames of Makerere

VIDEO: The Galogitho story

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📌 THE SAVE GALIGITHO FUNDS DRIVE and whatsapp group

Purpose of the Group

▶️ Contribute for the uplifting of our  Brother Galogitho.(Code named Rebuilding the Makerere 'short' tower)

✳️ Target outcomes

1.Provide for immediate needs (personal effects etc)

2. Buy land, construct a house (Home/Shelter for him)

3. Provide an IGA income generating activity currently planned to be a grain mill installation. including housing for the mill. This can be changed

4. Support his studying a course of his choice.

▶️ It is believed, when that is in place, Githo will be up and running. The rest of the ideas can then come in.

▶️ A committee was formed with Githos input to coordinate our efforts.

▶️ An account was opened where Githo is co signatory.

▶️ Mobile money is sent to Githos registered number.

✳️ Githo is in this group and reads all out chats. But he is (wisely) advised not to fully participate in day to day conversations. Mobilization is delegated to committee.

 Follow this link to join THE WhatsApp group: 

Galogitho today. He shared this photograph 
and a Christmas message today. CLICK HERE
TO READ

1. Account Name: Stephen Renny Galogitho, Mudali Emmanuel Muduku and Neto Augustine

2. A/C No. 1027201592821 UGX

3. Bank Name: Equity Bank Uganda Limited

4. Bank Code/ Swift Code: EQBLUKA

5. ADDRESS: Equity Bank, Head Office, Church House Building, Plot 34 Kampala Road, P. O. Box 10184 Kampala Uganda!

6. Branch Name: Jinja

7. Branch Code:  1027

8. Mobile Money:  0783010867

9. Airtel Money: 0758074941

 **Registered Names

 Galogitho Stephen Renny

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RECONSTRUCTION OF STEPHEN R. GALOGITHO

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📌 CLICK TO READ GALOGITHO'S 2020 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE TO ALL UGANDANS OF GOODWILL

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Makerere committee hands VC Nawangwe 5-point plan to end sexual harassment

The Chairperson-Prof. Sylvia Tamale and Vice Chancellor - Prof. Barnabas
Nawangwe discuss the committee report. PHOTO MAK MEDIA

June 26, 2018 - The committee set up to investigate sexual harassment at Makerere University has in their report asked the administration to offer more support to victims. They listed several cases where victims have stated their disappointment at the way Makerere handled then when they spoke out.

The committee that was appointed by the Vice-Chancellor on March 2, 2018 to investigate sexual harassment claims at Makerere University said in its report that,“the university offers little support to victims of sexual harassment after they report such cases and it needs to do more to eradicate the problem.”

The committee, chaired by Professor Sylvia Tamale, handed their report to the Vice Chancellor Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe on Monday at the main university campus.

Although Makerere already has a Policy and Regulations Against Sexual Harassment, the committee observed that there was general ignorance about it. The committee also said they noticed that a fear of retribution and avoidance of jeopardizing job and academic careers as another reason that undermines the elimination of sexual harassment on campus.

Why Makerere?

The Committee concluded from its findings that it is not necessarily true that cases of sexual harassment at Makerere University are increasing; rather, there is increased reportage. 

“The focus on Makerere is explicable because it is the oldest and most prestigious institution of higher learning in the country. At the same time, such reports point to a pervasive and serious problem that the university needs to address, but it by no means connotes that Makerere is an isolated case,” the committee said.

The committee said the focus is being turned on the university even though a policy against sexual harassment has been in place since 2006, demonstrating that the problem is much larger than the drafting of guidelines to address it.

Makerere University Committee Investigating Sexual Harassment FINAL Report June 2018 by jadwongscribd on Scribd

Recommendations

(1) Policy review.
(2) Investigation and disposal of cases.
(3) Campus environment.
(4) Raising awareness and training. 
(5) Academic/administrative policy changes. 

Based on its findings, the Committee made five broad recommendations, to help check sexual harassment.

They advised that a Policy review be done, investigation of cases be completed and cases be disposed of, improve the Makerere campus environment, raise awareness and training on issues related to sexual harassment plus institute academic and administrative policy changes.

"Management will expeditiously study the report and implement its recommendations including investigation of cases identified, review of the policy," promised Vice Chancellor-Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe after receiving the report.

Shocking revelations

A total of 234 interviews were conducted with members of the university community, with some shocking statements showing the difficulty Makerere faces to stump out the vice.

These are some:

• ·       “Women loitering around with their open thighs is not okay… these are devils, little temptresses who harass innocent, defenceless lecturers….” [Male lecturer]
• ·       I have one seductress in this hospital. She will do everything to put the men in compromising situations and thereafter she will overturn the tables to her benefit. [Female Doctor at the University Hospital]
• ·       Indecent dressing should not be encouraged. Parents and teachers have a duty to teach young girls and women to be decent at all times. [Male lecturer]
• ·       This madness of women should be put to order otherwise the world is finished! [Male lecturer]
• ·       Not until we teach our girl child to see herself as gold which is not like sand (easily excavated) vultures will continue preying on them. [Male lecturer]
• ·       “How can you end the livelihood of a man who has a family to look after and a global reputation to protect just like that?” [Respondent]
• ·       I have not read the policy but I have heard that there is a policy. I just imagine what it is – something like staff should not harass students or students should not harass students or staff harassing other staff. I think one needs to read it. [Respondent]
• If I report him to administration, who would the University afford to lose…, me or the guy with ground-breaking research?  [Respondent]

The committee also noted that the fact that men hold a large percentage of leadership positions may not be conducive to resolving the complaints, most often brought in by women.

Only 26% of the top positions of leadership in Makerere are held by women. “. Such a profile not only goes against the national constitution that calls for gender balance and fair representation of marginalised groups, but it also partly explains the rampant extent of sexual harassment at Makerere. The university should address this situation,” the report stated.

Out of 16 members of the central management team of the University, only 2 are women. The entire 16-member executive of MUASA is made up of men.

Gender-Segregated Leadership profile as of May 2018

Cadre	Males	Females	Total	% of Females
CENTRAL MANAGEMENT
Vice-Chancellor	1	0	1	0 %
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics)	1	0	1	0 %
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Finance & Administration)	1	0	1	0 %
University Secretary	1	0	1	0 %
Director of Human Resources	1	0	1	0 %
Academic Registrar	1	0	1	0 %
University Librarian	0	1	1	100 %
University Bursar	1	0	1	0 %
Dean of Students	1	0	1	0 %
Director, Planning & Development	0	1	1	100 %
Director, Quality Assurance	1	0	1	0 %
Director, Legal Affairs	1	0	1	0 %
Director, Internal Audit	1	0	1	0 %
Director, Estates & Works	0	1	1	100 %
Director, Research & Graduate Training	1	0	1	0 %
Director ICT Support	1	0	1	0 %
ACADEMIC STAFF
College Principals	10	0	10	0 %
College Deputy Principals	6	4	10	40 %
Deans	23	6	29	21 %
Heads of Departments	76	20	96	21 %
Professors	79	8	87	9 %
Associate Professors	132	29	161	22 %
Senior Lecturers	121	65	186	35 %
Lecturers	360	129	489	26 %
Assistant Lecturers	388	157	545	29 %
STUDENTS’ GUILD
Guild President	1	0	1	0 %
Guild Vice-President	0	1	1	100 %
Guild Cabinet	18	6	24	25 %
Guild Financial Advisor	1	0	1	0 %
Guild Legal Advisor	1	0	1	0 %
Residential Hall Chairpersons	8	3	11	27 %
Guild Representative Council (GRC)	64	23	87	26 %
MUASA
Chairperson	1	0	1	0 %
Vice-Chairperson	1	0	1	0 %
Executive Committee	16	0	16	0 %
MASA
Chairperson	1	0	1	0 %
Vice-Chairperson	1	0	1	0 %
Executive Committee	7	4	11	36 %
NUEI (MAKERERE CHAPTER)
Chairperson	1	0	1	0 %
Vice-Chairperson	1	0	1	0 %
Executive Committee	9	5	14	36 %
Overall Totals	1,339	463	1,802	26 %