CHIPEMBERE HIGHWAY TERROR: THE STRUGGLE OF NON-RESIDENTIAL STUDENTS
Most of the 4777 Polytechnic students are not accommodated on campus due to insufficient bed space. As a result most have resorted to seeking private accommodation outside campus which for the past decade has rendered them subject to bag-snatchings and assaults. Here is one of my too encounters with these incidents . By Brian Magombo Just ten minutes before the midnight of March 11, 2021, I shut down my laptop, closed the notebook I had been leafing through for the past four hours, zipped them in my backpack and took off to the Polytechnic main entrance where I would meet other students who had been studying for their mid semester exams to embark on a 30-minute commute to our Chichiri residence. As per routine I plugged my ear buds in my phones jack and immersed myself in some K-pop music to kill time while we waited for the whole assemblage to get to the rendezvous and depart. When all the three arms on my wrist watch ticked to the twelfth hour everyone in the congregation start...
