Uganda, Feb. 23 -- Makerere University is currently grappling with acute understaffing with at least 1, 700 critical offices remaining vacant, the university's authority have revealed.

While appearing before the Parliament's education committee on Thursday, Prof Umar Kakumba, deputy vice chancellor in charge of Academics at the country's oldest and biggest public university revealed that the institution's academic performance has for years continued to decline, partly due to understaffing that has continued to escalate over the years.

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Prof Kakumba noted although the approved numbe...