The Education Committee of Parliament has advised against halting the 15% fees increase Policy at Makerere University.
In October, students of Makerere protested against the 15 per cent tuition increment on first-year students, which is being implemented as part of a policy that was passed by the University Council in June 2018.
The report signed by Rubaga North MP Moses Kasibante and two other MPs recommends that Government should honor the Parliamentary decision of halting the 15% fee increment as was passed by Parliament.
They also want Government to finance the funding gap and table a Supplementary Budget request to ease the current suffering of students and their benefactors.
Parliament had earlier directed that the new fees policy be halted pending a sustainable remedy to the financing gap at the University.
Jacob Opolot, the committee chairperson who presented the findings of the report on Wednesday says that the increment was already included in the Makerere University Budget appropriated by Parliament for the last two financial years and halting the increment would distort the budget execution.
The committee has also recommended that the Auditor General performs a forensic audit on the management of finances at the University to ascertain accountability issues.
According to the report, the committee established that rooms in some Halls of Residences were being rented out and occupied by former students and other unauthorized persons, which compromises security at the institution.
In the report, the committee wants the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic to table before the House, proposals, plans and strategies for sustainable financing of Universities and tertiary education.
