WHO IS FIGHTING JOHN KALE UNIVERSITY? 

                     

Behind the failure to have John Kale Institute of Science and Technology (JKIST) stands government (Ministry of Education& Sports), which bear responsibility for ensuring that no child or young person is without education, and lack of focus both in implementation and in content in development agendas on governments’ human rights obligations.

                                            

Museveni promised to build the institute in memory of the late, John Muhima Kalekezi in 2012, the father of the former Inspector General of Uganda Police Force, General Kale Kahiyura for his role in instilling Ugandans with the spirit of Pan-Africans, whose core value was to liberate Africans from colonialism in the 1950's. Kalekyezi was a great Ugandan Pan-Africanist who supported Africa's anti-colonial movements.

Other regions have been in part of international and regional political drives to ensure that all children have access and complete education in areas that lag behind the most. Such efforts have had some success, with tens of millions entering primary education, and more girls staying in school and pursuing secondary education, improving gender parity in more countries, but when Museveni decided to give JKIST university people around him fought this University.

                               

The purpose of JKIST was to break generational cycles of poverty by enabling children to gain the life skills and knowledge needed to cope with today’s challenges. John Kale's political struggle is strongly linked to concrete improvements in health and nutrition, improving children’s very chances for survival. He believed that education empowers children to be full and active participants in society, able to exercise their rights and engage in civil and political life. Kale used to say to his friends that education is a powerful protection factor: children who are in school are less likely to come into conflict with the law and much less vulnerable to rampant forms of child exploitation, including child labor, trafficking, and recruitment into armed groups and forces.

Based on research in over 13 sub counties in Kisoro,  primary school education is free and compulsory and that secondary education is progressively free, and accessible to all children many people in these schools come from humble families which can not be able to their sons to kamapala or the nearer kabale, JKIST was good option of reducing costs related to educationsuch as transport.

The weak ministry of Education has strongly refused to build JKIST, yet land is available, money is in plenty instead the minister conived with locals during her visit in kisoro cause havok on the land which historically belongs to no one. the ministry lacks monitoring mechanisms, lack of zero-discrimination policies, lack of accountability for children who drop out of education, and unchecked power wielded by school officials as to who goes to school and who stays out are among the factors contributing to governments’ failures to ensure the right to quality education for children who have traditionally endured discrimination.

 A global push for JKIST continues in partnership with pan Africans the people from Kisoro have said No to the rally of Museveni which will take place on 4th Dec 2019, the boycott is all about the anger due to government failure to implement promised instiute,they said  thousands of adolescents being unable to continue their studies in their homeland is result of under looking them.

MR. Sebidega a farmer said that he was happy to when President Museveni promised to build this University, he started saving money to start a business in that area but what annoyed him was the news he got that University is delaying due recklessness of the body in charge (ministry of education)

             NO JKIST, NO MUSEVENI, NO NRM