Pay Before Service

Pay Before Service
Makerere. Internet at Makerere University has been disconnected by the service provider, Uganda Telecom, because of outstanding bills.
As the norm, and in spirit of the ancestors, students are threatening to strike if the university does not pay reconnection fees.
Also, in spirit of the administrative procedure, contradicting responses are coming from the administration.
The spokesman says they have sent the cheque to the service provider.
The amusing vibe is from the vice chancellor, the professor. According to him, most of the students threatening to strike are yet to clear their tuition and other university bills. This in principle means that students should agitate for the services only after paying.
The loud question is; Should the students then deduct internet charges from the money they owe between themselves and university? This is in illogical sense that they are not using the internet.
In the era of global networking, an institution worth a name should maintain internet connection, irrespective of the ‘speed’. For the government’s leading public institution to have its internet disconnected is a testimony of intentions of its care takers.
This is the up tenth time that internet at the once referral university in Africa is disconnected over unpaid fees. Of course recent rankings show the university has taken a fall to about the 50-something placement.
The university administration should develop dynamics of modern day school managent.