The Makerere University stalemate; what should be done

It is so sad that as I write this, the region's best and oldest university has closed businesses indefinitely! This was after a series of incessant strikes by both the students and the lecturers.

Many questions here but certainly very few answers. The most common of questions on everyone's lips is what exactly went wrong? If I were to answer that in one sentence, I think I would say everything went wrong. As a student of this great institution, I have not interested myself in the intricate affairs of the University but that is not to say that I have no clue about them. For starters I find that the biggest problem the institution faces rotates around finances. The spark came with the failure of the lecturer's to be incentified. I find this problematic for an institution that has a populace of more than 30,000 students who pay tuition. In addition to this, the government is under obligation to meet its end of the bargain. Who then is not playing his part? For the time I have been at this university, I have not known of a time when someone has failed to pay tuition and gone on to sit for examinations. That actually means the students make the payments. Some think that the government has absconded on its duty of contributing its share to the University. There is also talk that students on statehouse scholarship take a long time to pay if at all they get to pay at all. Another school of thought says that actually there is a lot of mismanagement of these funds.
Whatever it is that is causing this I think the government should stop kicking the can but rather act fast because this is a crisis at hand. First is that Parliament should be immediately called from recess because this is a very urgent matter that goes beyond the gates of Makerere. We have seen them pass supplementary budgets for defence even in the absence of war, this is surely a more pressing issue. A committee should also be immediately set up to investigate the mess in the institution. A forensic external audit should be done to clean up the entire system. Desperate times call for desperate measures.