There was drama yesterday morning (27th November, 2017) when an aging man was intercepted by the Nkrumah hall custodian at Makerere with stolen car spare parts that he had wrapped in his jacket and had allegedly gotten from the hall parking yard.
However in a swift, students had poured in from all corners of the university baying for the blood of this individual.
The students who claimed to be victims of theft in and around the hall accussed him of stealing whatever they had lost. From laptops to TV sets, phones and even clothes, the students poured anger and emotion on this individual in the form of beatings until blood started to show from his head and wherever skin could portrude.
It took the intervention of the OC station at Makerere Police post SP Kasibante to rescue the individual and take him to the police with the exhibits amidst insults and stones being hurled at the police and the ‘thief’ respectively.
Nkrumah hall was in the news in late 2015 when a suspected laptop thief was lynched by a students’ mob infront of the hall. The outcome of this was the arrest of top student leaders within the hall who spent close to a year in Luzira prison.
The individual, whose identity police refused to reveal is going to be presented before court with charges of theft among others preferred against him.
Police condemned the action of students taking matters in their hands and administering justice on suspected criminals, an idea that the students we talked to laughed upon.
“He was caught red-handed. This one was not a suspected thief, he is plainly a thief and we had to discipline him”, a student who preferred anonymity disclosed to us.
Accordingly, the students want the police to always give them an opportunity to discipline such characters before they are whisked away.
“Thieves have to know that Makerere is a no-steal-zone because when we catch them they will pay with blood”, the student threatened.
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