Police attributes the many crimes in the university to the open access to the university. The OC CID, Makerere Police Station, Jackson Amali says people from outside the university use the many openings to enter and exit at any time.

Amali says it is these routes that people who commit crimes mainly use, making it difficult to track them.

A second-year student at Makerere University is nursing injuries she sustained on Saturday morning when she fell into an open manhole within the university campus.

Jemima Kagere, from the School of Education, sprained her leg after falling into the open manhole just outside the Arts Building in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS). Kagere says the incident happed at 6:58am.

The crime rate in Makerere University has reduced with the increased deployment of police officers, university guards and patrol officers.

These deployments are full time and distributed widely on campus. There are over eighty officers who are differently stationed with some being static, foot patrol, motorised and intelligence officers.