KAMPALA, Uganda
Uganda’s Makerere University has expressed concern about a high drop-out rate linked to sports betting.
The vice-chancellor of
Uganda’s largest and oldest higher learning institution, Barnabas Nawangwe, on
Tuesday said at least 1,000 students drop out annually after losing tuition
fees to sports betting.
“Our investigations have shown
that actually, those people were dropping out not because they failed to pay
fees. They got fees from their parents and wanted to invest in betting in order
to get interest,” the Daily Monitor newspaper quoted Nawangwe saying.
He said some students have
been duping their parents of their academic progress and even accompanying them
to the graduation ceremony, knowing they have not been attending class.
“They ended up being broke and
kept telling their parents stories. And parents don’t hear their names being
read in the graduation booklet,” the professor said.
There have been reports in
Uganda of students losing their tuition to sports betting companies.
In May last year, a Makerere
student allegedly kidnapped himself after losing his tuition money to a sports
betting scheme.
He was found hiding in the
eastern district of Iganga after a police search.
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