Nkrumah Hall went to bed yesterday with yet another horrifying crime reported at the now-notorious abode for Makerere University students. Child-sodomy at the hands of a 23-year old Kenyan resident student of literature. Campusbee brings you an investigative blow-by-blow account of what exactly happened.
At around 12:50pm on Wednesday, a group of six armed policemen matched into the busy hall and climbed their way up to the 3rd level, on a mission none of the students immediately knew about. It was moments later that the object was revealed: an alleged child sodomist was lurking about in his room, fresh from the act.
It is alleged that it all started when the suspect found the 10-year-old boy idling about at the swimimg pool just below DFCU back. The suspect developed quick banter with the boy and took him to Ham Towers just opposite Muk’s main gate to buy a few things.
From Ham, the suspect still convinced the 10-year-old to go with him to Nkrumah hall just a few meters after the pool where he resides so that they could devour the delicacies bought.
Eyewitnesses of the arrest say the boy recounted how the suspect started playing adult videos the moment they settled down in his room. One thing led to another and by the time it was all done, the kid was limping out of the room with a crisp shs2,000 note in his hands to cover for both the pain and the vicious assault on his innocence.
Walking past Makerere’s Police post near the guild offices, poor kid couldn’t take the pain anymore. As fate would have it, he collapsed in a heap just in front of the officers. Alarmed, the officers rushed to find out what was wrong with the kid. It is then that the poor kid fed their ears with the horror that had been visited on him inside a room at Nkrumah hall allegedly by the 23-year old Kenyan student of literature only identified as Kevin.
A crowd of resident students and hall cleaners swarmed outside the suspect’s room on seeing the policemen, each wondering what could possibly have happened this time. In their midst was the poor boy, crying in pain. Out of the blue, one of the students ‘who had just joined the party’ swung a hot slap across the kid’s face. “Bwebuno obutubba! (these are the thieves!)” he thundered. Such was the confusion. In the meantime, some policemen had locked themselves in the room with the suspect, still questioning him, while others remained on standby outside where the crowd was.
A violent quiver immediately went through the crowd of students as soon as they realised what had actually happened, with many baying for their hall-mate’s blood. Police later managed to whisk the suspect away under tight security.
At police, the suspect allegedly confessed to not only sodomizing the kid, but also capturing the entire episode on camera. A few policemen would later come back to Nkrumah to search for the flash on which the suspect had stored his evidence.
By press time, the suspect was still at Wandegeya Police station. In a Facebook post, ASP Jackson Mucunguzi who also doubles as Makerere’s Chief Security Officer says the suspect confessed that a ring of sodomists and similar offenders who are usually under the influence of drugs stay in many of the halls of residence.
Mucunguzi adds that hall culture activities such as the naked mile are used to promote these vices.
What some of those who know him say about the suspect
One of the suspect’s neighnours says the suspect had a weired character. “The way he would talk to you and the way he would touch you, something didn’t feel right with him.” Another neighbour had his own reservations. “The guy used to over-make up, although he was a nice person. You would never suspect him capable of doing what he allegedly did”.
A friend of his roommate says the suspect would always get uncomfortable “whenever we came with female friends for a discussion in the room. He would just get up and leave the room, seemingly disgusted.” Another one who identified himself as a friend to the suspect disputes the allegations. “Kevin was a nice guy, man. He was friendly and nothing appeared ‘wrong’ about him. He was a good friend to me, I doubt he did it.”
What the law says
Sec. 145 (a) of the Penal Code says any person who has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature is liable to suffer life imprisonment. The fact that the victim in this case is a minor could be an aggravating factor tilting the suspect’s fate towards a possible death sentence.
Nkrumah hall’s troubled year
The latest criminal episode at Nkrumah comes just seven months after students at the hall clobbered to death an innocent Ojok David, a former resident at the same hall (one month after clobbering yet another thief) on suspicion that he was a thief. Three suspects are on remand in connection with the Ojok death.
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