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Kenyatta University Students Go On the Rampage
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The East African Standard (Nairobi)
January 28, 2003
Posted to the web January 27, 2003
Dominic Wabala
Nairobi
Rioting Kenyatta University students yesterday paralysed transport on the busy Thika highway to press for the reinstatement of their union.
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) and Nation Television cameraman were injured when the students pelted them with stones.
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The KBC cameraman was on the fly-over filming the rioting students when one of them hit him with a sling propelled stone on the head.
The students cheered as the bleeding cameraman dropped his equipment and fell. He bled profusely before he was rushed to hospital.
Nation TV's Wangui Muchiri lost her shoes as the angry students pelted journalists with stones, accusing them of betraying them to the university's administration.
Muchiri was saved from the marauding students by EnGen filling station attendants. The students stormed the filling station, three kilometres away from their gate, baying for Muchiri's blood.
She was locked away in a room until police officers led by the Officer Commanding Kasarani Police Division (OCPD), Mr Simeon Kipkeu, went to her rescue.
The students lit born fires on the busy highway and blocked it with boulders as Kipkeu and his officers patiently negotiated with them.
The students robbed the Kenya Red Cross crew who had rushed to the area of all their First Aid kit and looted a truck of its wares as they went on rampage.
However, after hours of futile attempts to negotiate with the students, Kipkeu called in reinforcements and forced the students back into the campus.
Vice Chancellor George Eshiwani had to be sneaked into the compound via a gate in the Kahawa Barracks, but was holed up in his office most of the time.
Sources said that he had called a Senate meeting to discuss the students grievances which included the reinstatement of the Kenyatta University Students Association (Kusa), re-admitting all students previously suspended and congestion in their halls of residence.
Some students said that they were being forced to pay when they go to the University's swimming pool and that the library was ill-equipped.
Motorists who were held up in a major snarl up for about seven hours complained of the inconvenienced caused by the rioting students. They said that some of them had missed important appointments because of the riots.
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