Lawmakers across the political spectrum have accused the Ministry of Education and Sports of failing to address what they have called “a cancerous issue” of high school fees charges in learning institutions across the country.
This was after the State minister for Higher Education, John Chrysostom Muyingo, failed to avail regulations during a presentation of his statement on the high cost of school fees in some public and tertiary learning institutions.
Muyingo, in his statement read before the house yesterday, annoyed the lawmakers after partly saying the policy regulating school fees had been overtaken by events.
The Minister said the policy regulating school fees has, as it were, been overtaken by events, and a new position on Free Compulsory (Universal) Education is being implemented.
Led by Speaker Anita Among, the legislators accused the government of dragging its feet and argued that rather than availing them information on Universal Free Education, they were rather more interested in school fees regulations for primary, secondary and tertiary learning institutions.
Ms Among was disappointed that Muyingo’s statement was similar to that of State minister for Sports, Peter Ogwang, which was presented last week before also “being thrown out”.
The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Mathias Mpuuga, said there was no way legislators could debate such a lukewarm statement.
Ms Among concluded that Muyingo needed to come back with something better to present before the House.
