By Weswa Ronnie
MBALE
The Government of Uganda is going to fulfil its pledge of donating two buses to Islamic University of Uganda (IUIU) as one way of boosting science courses.
This was revealed by Jessica Alupo, the Vice President of Uganda while reading President Museveni’s message on Saturday during the University’s 32nd graduation ceremony held at their Mbale Main Campus.
According to Museveni’s written speech, IUIU is one of the universities in Uganda producing lots of medical personnel and this is what the country needs at the moment.
He said the government pledged the university two buses to help them in promoting sciences like taking students to the field for practical purposes confirming that soon the government is going to fulfil the pledge.
Simbwa Gyagenda, the rector of IUIU revealed that the University has started constructing an engineering department at Mbale main campus worth billions of shillings funded by Islamic Banking.
He added that IUIU intends to mainly promote sciences so that they can push this country ahead in terms of development.
