KAMPALA. The embattled Makerere University vice chancellor Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe has displayed his certified academic credentials to prove to critics that he is fit to superintend Uganda’s premier university.
Various social media platforms have in the past weeks been awash with reports that Prof.Nawangwe bribed his way to become Makerere VC as he lacks the required academic papers -an allegation he has come out to dismiss .
Using his X handle formerly Twitter on Sunday , Prof. Nawangwe displayed all his academic papers right from Busia Integrated Primary School where he sat his Primary Leaving Examination(PLE) in 1969 and emerged the best pupil in Uganda that year before joining Busoga College ,Mwiri where he wrote his East African Certificate of Education in November December 1975.He says , he briefly attended Makerere University and due to political reasons then ,he left in 1976 to join Kiev Institute of Engineering where he obtained a Master’s of Science in Architecture degree in 1983 .
He further obtained a PhD in Architecture from the same institution in 1989.
In regard to his promotion to professorship, Prof Nawangwe says he submitted five peer reviewed publications to the Appointments Board as was required then . He says all the five publications were subjected to vetting by an external professor of Architecture and the vetter’ s report confirmed the academic and professional credibility of the five publications and recommended him for promotion to the rank of professor .
To get the coveted position of VC ,Prof.Nawangwe says he submitted a total of 14 peer reviewed publications more than the minimum of 10 that are required .
A confident Nawangwe has also went biblical , quoting John 8:32 which says : “And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
“Following weeks of speculation by street preachers and foreign funded agents regarding my academic qualifications, I have found it necessary to make public my academic credentials. I hope this will put the debate that is clearly designed to intimidate me to abandon my mission of eliminating hooliganism at the top black university on earth and spurring her growth into a formidable research and professionally managed
