Team Uniform Limited, a company contracted to supply patented Makerere University Graduation gowns is furious over non-payment of arrears.

   
The contractor has written letters to the institution’s officials in charge of the Ceremonies complaining that there is no communication as to when payments will be made.

With just a week to the graduation slated to take place from 14th to 17th January 2020, Salt Radio has established that the contractor has not been paid a balance of 75 million shillings for gowns of the 69th Graduation Ceremony. The firm is paid around 900 million per year for the gowns. 

More than 13,000 students are expected to graduate at the 70th graduation ceremony. The institution 2018 adopted a mandatory fee of 98,000 Shillings paid by all students for a patented University Gown. Unlike previous years, students are expected to only use the exclusive Makerere University Graduation gown.  

According to Alfred Masikye Namoah, the Makerere University Academic Registrar, every first-degree graduands pays a mandatory graduation fee of 208,000 shillings inclusive of 98,000 shillings as graduation gown fee.

 The fees include 10,000 shillings for Convocation, 40,000 graduation fees, 30,000 transcript fee and another 30,000 as Certificate fees before he/she can be allowed to graduate.  

Most of the students who are supposed to graduate say they were told the gowns were not ready as of yesteday, January 6, 2020.  

  

Connie Nabwire, a student of Master of Arts in International Relations and Diplomatic Studies says that she was told to return but has nope of getting the gown.