Students while at campus continue to be targeted by several sections of the society for they not only comprise of a big percentage of the country’s population but have the financial power and will to spend. These are targeted by businesses for sales, companies for cheap labour as they’re naive and open to opportunities- and now, robbers for their gadgets and money.
Not that its a new vice, but the rate is alarming as over 14 MUBS students have fallen victim of these wolves that come in sheep’s skin in just a space of 4 days according to cases recorded by the Students Guild with several other cases going unnoticed.
Kamulegeya Eddie, a third year Business Administration student at the school narrated to our reporter how he lost his new Galaxy S8 to these robbers on Friday evening.
“It was around 9pm. I decided to take a taxi since it was late and I could hardly access any motor cycles at the moment.
I sat in the front seat and all seemed safe until they told me to tighten the door which I did with no hesitation. They passed me a seat belt and I was busy concentrating on the door I didn’t notice that the passenger next to me was in my pocket and that is the last time I saw my phone.
They told me to go out and left me stranded around Complex building which houses New Vision offices,” Kamulegeya narrated.
Another student, Diana Burabyo faced it even rougher. She boarded the Taxi around Akamwesi Hostel and on reaching New Vision, they ordered her to surrender all her possessions and move out or else she could be raped and killed.
“I was from visiting a friend and it was really getting late. I was ordered to surrender phone and money or be raped. I felt so scared. I left the taxi trembling in fear and I hated this country that night. Police should do something,” Diana told Campus Bee.
Several other cases have been recorded and these are mainly from taxis boarded around Port Bell road that stretches from Vision House, Dofra, Betsam, Valley Courts, Akamwesi Hostels, MUBS Main gate and in front pf Capital Shoppers.
Students have been advised to only board taxis from the designated stages or better still take chance of the many Pioneer buses by the Students Guild cabinet and to never submit to requests of trying to shift side mirrors and tightening the doors by the drivers. The vice is real. Stay woke!
