The fetus screeched, tossed and turned when a stray stone broke through the bus window to hit hard on its heavily pregnant mother. She wailed. Seated now to the side of the road leaning against a wall, she was in agonizing pain.

Everyone who looked at her, seeing her tears drop to the dusty ground and her feeble arms rub gently against her belly, were almost moved to tears.
Around her was a sea of helpless onlookers most of whom were fellow passengers in the Kenyan bound bus. The bus had met a mob of rioters who rained stones on it, breaking most of the window panes and denting the sides of the 60-sitter bus. The group could not now proceed on their way with such a dilapidated bus.
On seeing the wreckage on this Kenyan registered bus, most travelers from the Jinja direction heading to Kampala reconsidered their plans. Most of them stopped and asked the bus passengers what had happened to them. This is when they were assured of how driving past Wantoni in Mukono town would be suicide.
Among the curious bystanders was Mr. Moses Musingo, a lecturer at the Department of Mass Communications. The taxi in which he was traveling abandoned its journey at a place called Mbalala after Mukono, when the driver sow the tortured Kenyan registered bus. He imagined his own taxi shuttered to pieces. He could help but stop the engine.
"On seeing the damaged bus, the taxi driver asked all the passengers to step out of the taxi. He said he was not proceeding," Musingo says.
 Mr. Musingo was from a secondary school, Mt. St. Mary's Namagunga, where he is a teacher of literature. He was now on his way back home in Seeta when he came face to face with total "chaos".
"We were dropped off at a place called Mbalala. We started walking. It was about 6.30 pm. We arrived in Mukono after 8pm," he says.
On reaching Wantoni, a 10 minutes' walk from Mukono town along the Kampala-Jinja highway, they were served to a warm welcome of stinging teargas that was still freshly floating in the air; on the road were broken window panes, various assortments of stones, broken glass and ash from burning fire places.
"Wantoni looked like a battle field. Teargas was still stinging, so people were carrying water bottles," he says.
The exodus of people heading towards Mukono kept growing as those who had reached their destinations dropped off, the rest proceeded. Amongst the innocent travelers were also some chaotic ones, who took advantage of the plight of others,
"There were hundreds of people on the road. As we reached Mukono Police station, I was shocked when parts of the crowd turned, gathered some items and setup a fire right in the middle of the road," he said with a sarcastic smile on his face.
According to Mr. Musingo, it had become too difficult to tell who stranded travelers were and who the rioters were. Everyone was caught up in the big mass of people.
"As we walked, between Wantoni and Seeta, I did not see any vehicle moving on the road. Most of them were parked at Petrol stations," he says.
The chaos in Seeta
After about four hours of walking, it was 9.30 pm when Mr. Musingo and his friends finally reached Seeta township. But at the time, it was anything but a town.
"There was a burning track in the middle of the road. People were singing and dancing around it as they stoked the fire," he says.
At this point one wonders where the police were,
"Initially, there were no police officers. A fire track later on came, but it did not have water. So they also stopped and just watched the rioters. It was funny that the rioters were now just laughing at the police."

Mr. Musingo recalls that it this time he desperately wanted to get home. And so did the rest of the stranded exodus of people.
"We decided to walk between the group of police officers and the rioters. The burning track was also in between the two groups. On reaching midway, the rioters called us to their side, out of fear of being hit with stones, we joined them."
This could have been the biggest mistake they ever made.
"The rioters asked us if any of us were Banyala or 'westerners'. To find out, they asked us to sing the Buganda Anthem. After that we were told to sing 'Land Lord'," he says as he shakes his head in disbelief.
"Land Lord" is a song by Ronald Mayinga, a local music artist. The song is in Luganda and it praises the Kabaka of Buganda saying he is the Landlord of all the land in Buganda.
"Most people knew the songs, so we survived," he says he heaved a sigh of relief.
After enduring a long four hour walk, teargas, smoke, intimidation and singing against his will, Mr. Musingo's day had not ended just yet. The group of about 40 rioters pounced on their prey and started raiding them of valuables; money, mobile phones, watches among others.
Though his money, to the tune of about sh40,000 was taken, Mr. Musingo tells of how wit saved his phone.
"My phone survived because I had wrapped it in my handkerchief and held it in my hand. The rest of the other people's phones were taken; one of the rioters actually laughed at me for not having a phone."
Although the Mass communication lecturer made his way home safe, he was hurting on the inside. He says he was really angry at the rioters. With an evident frown on his face, he says, "I was very angry at the rioters for what they did to me and the others. But I was more upset by the people who tried to justify the violence on radio and TV."
The following day, Musingo says he stayed home most of the day, but came to campus briefly later on in the day. None of the other staff members seemed to have been caught in the chaos like he did.
"I have not heard from any member of staff complaining of their experience with the violence. I think it was just me."
To clarify this, the estates manager, Tusiime David says his office did not receive any security threats caused by the riots.
"Everything that happened was outside the university. It did not affect us," he says.
Mrs. Milly Mutebi, a senior nursing officer at Galpin Clinic says they have not received any cases of staff or student casualities from the riots,
"We have not received any patients who were injured by the riots," she says.
Even though there was no direct effect of the riots on the security or health of the UCU community, the riots did affect the running of the academic program.
Sylvia Kajubi, the director, teaching and learning at the academics affairs office explained the interference.
"We decided to cancel all Friday evening lectures in both the Mukono and Kampala campus due to security reasons. For the day lectures, some of the lecturers who live in Mukono made it to class, but those who did not make it were not held liable," she says.