It hasn’t been a warm welcome to the hill of the learnt for Edison Agaba. Edison who was blinded by the security gulu gulu veil bumped into a bunch of thugs on Wednesday night as he was moving back from the Mitchelex bazaar to his place of residence.
According to eye witnesses, he was walking past the upper pathway at the College of Veterinary (VET) between 10-11pm when they heard him scream. By the time they came to his rescue, he was already beaten with his face covered by blood that oozed from a cut on his head. All his valuables; smartphone and cash were taken. 
Paul Sebalu, an eye witness told Campus Bee that Agaba is a freshman at Mubs but he was in Muk for their ongoing Mitchellex Bazaar. “He happened to use the wrong route while getting out of campus, thugs pitch camp there because they know freshers are in campus till late night and are not aware about such malicious acts. He was ambushed at the path right after Livingston Hall besides College of Veterinary, it’s dark and lacks security lights,” he narrates.
Lapse in security on campus
Sebalu says that the gap in security is mainly due to management not working with students to exactly know how to come up with solution. “Management” works with “management”, which would be okay if it where serving itself, but then the security it puts up for the students is put to waste because it is put up as a formality but not to really serve it’s purpose.
We’ve had a girl raped behind Africa hall two academic years ago, it went by like nothing happened, we have over 100 cases of laptop thefts each semester, not because of lack of security or better measures but mostly because of negligence by university management. The only solution I see is university management getting in touch with hall leaders but not the students guild because the gap is still wide between the students guild and the halls,” Sebalu suggested.
Head of Security Speaks Out
While inquiring from Afande Jackson Mucunguzi the head of security at MAK, he said the Police hadn’t heard of such a complaint. “I am going to talk to the DPC Wandegeya Police station so that we can double our efforts,” he said
Afande Jackson Mucunguzi will also be part of the Freshers orientation tomorrow 9am-11am from where he’ll share safety tips with freshmen.
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