A MAN SURVIVES MUK MOB JUSTICE

A MAN who stole a computer, a phone and money survived death by mob justice at Makerere University on Thursday, 22.

John Katumesigye 27 of Kamwanyi zone, Nsambya was badly beaten by university students at the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (FCIT) for stealing a laptop, shs.50,000 and a mobile phone

Students who were around said Katumesigye disguised as a student before entering a lecture room, sat and attended a lecture that was going on.

Students said immediately after the lecture, confident Katumesigye who was seated at the back of the class picked a bag, which carried a laptop, a Nokia phone and money belonging to a third year student.

When grilled by the police who rescued him, the thief said one; Moses Ssekagya drove him to the campus and asked him to perform the task at a fee of shs.10000. He said Ssekagya is a student at the university, but he doesn’t know his residence.

Furious students struggled with police guards at the university to have the man killed before Wandegeya police pick-up truck arrived. Police shifty put him on the truck and sped off.

Students’ Dean John Ekudu described the incident as a phenomenon in every normal society.

“Like any society, we are bound to experience such a thing. It is an occurrence in any normal society. There is nothing much that can make us an exception,” Ekudu said.

This is not the first case of theft at the Faculty. Students’ Faculty President John Wekesa said this semester alone over 40 cases of theft were reported, with 25 being cases of laptops.

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