Police quel UNZA protest
- Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 13:33
- Breaking News
- 21 comments
Police last evening sealed-off the main entrance to University of Zambia great East road campus after students ran amok in protest over the issue of meal allowance.
Police also temporarily closed part of the great East road after the stone throwing UNZA students damaged three Motor Vehicles.
Lusaka Province Police Chief GREENWELL N’GUNI confirmed last evening that the students were throwing stones and other objects at innocent motorists.
Mr. N’GUNI however said that police later took control of the situation, but NO arrests had been made by press time.
And a ZNBC News Crew that rushed to UNZA found a heavy presence of police in riot gear stationed at various points within the university vicinity.
Motorists were directed to use other alternative routes to their different destinations.
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Degree Holders for you. Next 11 yrs they will be standing as presidents. HeheheheeeehLol
Efyo iya mudala! Kuchivivula nga tabaleleta bwangu indalama!
Same old story. What else is new? We never come up with long-term solutions just short-term ones for political expediency. We simply have our priorities wrong(if we have any at all that is).
this is a problem that needs serious attention RB and Dora!
The nonsense of throwing stones at passing cars should haunt you in your settled years of adulthood.
This is a very fatal thing to do. These chaps could easily lead to loss of life on the Great East Road. Probably the Government should consider a Bypass Road so that w see how they will throw stones at cars.
After they damage our cars, they want our maoney to feed their stomachs. They are most ungrateful to tax payers whose cars they damage and whose lives they threaten. This is thuggery at the highest institution of learning.
Since when did these students become a parralel government in Zambia? They need to resize themselves and bring honour to the University of Zambia.
AND YES, THE GOVERNMENT MUST PUT LONG TERM SOLUTIONS IN PLACE FOR THE MEAL AND OTHER ALLOWANCES FOR OUR STUDENTS.
THE GOVERNMENT TAXES US HEAVILY, PARTLY SO THAT THE STUDENTS HAVE WHAT THEY NEED.
THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO TREAT EVERYONE WITH INJUSTICE WHEN IT COMES TO THE DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS OWED TO PEOPLE. CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW IN THIS DAY AND AGE CIVIL SERVANTS ARE OWED PAY BY THE ALMIGHTY GRZ?
SHAME!
Privatise Unza to save it..allow for the state to absorb most of the current debts as their equity, then lease out the running of the hostels to a private firm with a clear mandate to rehabilitate and bring sanity in the management and maintaince of the same..
Detach the rest of the buildings so that each school is run commerically charge a fee for rentals this will be charged to fees and a pool created going into the admin pool this must be run as a investment and reinvestment fund.
Auction the busary scheme so that it becomes a commercial venture..this will then allow for busaries to be a loan scheme but managed prudently with proper audits and capitalised once allow for a student to pay say 10 percent of the total tution fee and government taking up 50%, 25% loan, 15% handling fee which is what will be expended as admin costs leaving 75 to recapitalise the pool at anyone time…attach it to CEEC.
Lease out the sports facilities with a clause to bring them to speed there must be reinvestment if this were done and much more then the neighbours would be caused to send their chidren for quality education in Zambia once again.
Do away with fulltime lectures have a core crop of lectures the rest must be contracted all deans must be a Chair sponsored ie by the private sector as part of the investment clause and tax rebate/holiday….
Engage a professional board of directors and stop all this nonsense of running it like a huge primary/secondary school which we used to call in the late 70s as ‘Special’.
What a nation.21st centruy we re failing to resolve our own problems.i think we need to be recolonised.politicans ve failed us,were is the 5 billion?
Turn UNZA into a craft training school. Our country will benefit more from skilled plumbers, brick layers, electricians, seamstresses etc than it does from stone throwing, rubble-rousing, half-baked so-called graduates.
Some of these students come from families where they have one meal or half a meal a day. They come to UNZA and they want to be fed as kings. Why does the Zambian governments put up with this rubbish year in and year out? The University is an institution for learning and not foe feasting. If the meal allowances are not enough, the students should accept to have more tax on their parents and they should pay more for school fees. If they do not want to study, they should pack up and go home and there will be plenty of others ready to take their places. Funding for academic institutions for research and teaching is suffering all over the world. Much of the funding at UNZA goes into staff salaries and student board and lodging and hardly anything remains for research and development. I would suggest that (1) the time students spend in lectures be reduced so that they can do part time work. (2) University residences should be let for rent by a limited company the University could form (3) Dining halls should be commercial level restaurants and each student should pay cash for meals. (4) Only tuition fees should be collected by the University. (5) University should be allowed to make money and be profitable. After all, the best economic brains in Zambia are there, engineers, vets, doctors etc. so how can they fail? (6) Any students invoved in violent and unruly behaviour and causing malicious damage to property should be subjected to the due process of the law and not just suspended or expelled. These people are over 18 and they are adults. They must be made responsible for their behaviour.
And No Scents, I agree with you. There are too many good for nothing degree paper waving non-productive, television addicted, night club patronising, spenders but not earning so called graduates in Zambia. I would send them for National service for a bit of disciplining.
don’t we just love free things?
In as much as i would condemn such violence by students,i also wanna say that,gentlemen and ladies,lets not be emotional or show signs of an inferiority complex when looking at UNZA and CBU students.If say,you were having one meal at home,it doesn’t mean the same should apply when you are at UNZA.The hard working monks deserve their BC.Read by the libary when KK opened UNZA,it says,….let this legend of self sacrifice be appreciated and be there for generations to come and benefit our people especially the poor….
I have read the plaque signed off by KK but it does not go on to say ‘may those who have one meal a day at home, come and live as kings here and throw stones at innocent by passers on great east road’
The saint wats your problem?wats with pipo eating two or a meal were they come from?ok i seriously think u din’t have to mention that,dont u know meals keep students going!? you are definatley right about violence but meals please try and reconsider….. The saint NO, thank you
lopa,what’s point your dude…….meals and stoning cars,i don’t see the point.Even prisoners,murderers are entitled to meals in prison.
lopa,what’s your point dude……i don’t see the link between stoning cars and meals.Even prisoners,murderers are entitled to meals.
They come from poor families where they just about make ends meet, and now they want to stone my car as I go home after a productive day that will see part of my income being paid towards taxes, the same taxes that are even giving them meals in the first place! Idiots!
They should be arrested, and if their parents have cars, these should be stoned at the police station to prove a point!
No scents you are better off having a half baked graduate than a crafts coz once a craftsman starts throwing stones,he will never stop.lol
You are all forgeting the route cause. do you think if the money is paid on time,the monks will ever go to the roadside?helllllll no. the bottom line is govt thru the bursaries committee now that every month at some particular time,they should release money to give the students they sponsor.hence they should make it available full stop. it does not take a degree holder like the NCC is proposing to realise that. If that is done all this nonsense of stonethrowing will be dead. but its like the govt is ever trying to test their patience and look at what happens. I really dont understand the way this country is managed. honestly if Zambia was a mine, it would have collapsed a long time ago!!!
Nkunda the noblity of the quote did not imply these children from humble homes should forget those that made the sacrifice for the University to be built. A little care and concern even as they air their grievances would go a long way in mitigating their plight..
I hated vivula on camp d because it translated into closure.