Controversial Makerere University lecturer Dr Stella Nyanzi has Monday made good on her promise to strip naked if she does not regain her office at Makerere Institute for Social Research (MISR).
The Institute’s director Prof Mahmood Mamdani maintains Nyanzi can only stay in office is she teaches at the facility as promised.
The aged don removed her dress and bras hence exposing her nudity to the full glare of the public.
“My clothes are on the floor. I want my office. If you have locked me out with one padlock…Mamdani, I want my office,” charged Nyanzi after removing her clothes.
She hurled more insults at the respected Harvard-trained researcher.
Observers say this the first time in the history of Makerere University that a female lecturer is exposing her private parts to the public in a strip protest.
“I have thrown my clothes outside Mamdani’s office. I am naked as a I cry out for my office,” she said.
Mamdani, who became director of MISR in 2010, has since laughed at reports that Nyanzi was being persecuted for supporting the opposition.
“Dr. Stella Nyanzi was confirmed in university service in May, 2013, only after she pledged to teach in the PhD programme. She received MISR and university backing for a fellowship at UCT only after a written assurance that she was going to use the time to design a new course to teach in the PhD programme,” said Mamdani.
“Since her appointment at MISR, Dr. Stella Nyanzi has done only private research,” he added.
“So long as she spends her time exclusively on private matters and personal research, MISR can only offer her a seat in at the MISR library. The day she begins teaching in the PhD programme, she will be provided an office by the institution.”
Nyanzi, who hit the limelight at the peak of the 2016 presidential elections during which she used explicit sexual modes of expression to disparage President Museveni and praise Dr Besigye, said on Facebook that “ Mamdani, is evicting me from my office because I refused to teach on his PhD program.”