The High Court in Kampala, has awarded former Makerere University Research Fellow, Dr Stella Nyanzi Shs120 million in damages after the institution defied the orders of the Staff Appeals Tribunal to reinstate her.
Presiding judge, Lydia Mugambe said that Makerere University had a duty to implement the decisions of its Staff Appeals Tribunal but they instead rejected to implement the same in regard to Dr Nyanzi.
The respondent has an overarching duty to implement the decisions of its Staff Appeals Tribunal," ruled justice Mugambe.
The other orders of the Appeals Tribunal that Makerere staff refused to implement included; to pay Dr Nyanzi all her salary, benefits and emoluments due to her by virtue of her employment and to consider her long overdue application for promotion from the post of Research Fellow to Senior Research Fellow.
While refusing to implement the aforementioned orders of its Staff Appeals Tribunal, Makerere administrators claimed Dr Nyanzi was no longer their staff after she was fired over alleged indiscipline.
