Its Sunday dawn, residents of Moi University are woken up by
the birds chirping in unison to welcome the new day. Sooner than later, the
institution is bustling with life, students getting ready to go to church without
the knowledge that death hung high in the sky and that a lifeless body lay
somewhere out there in the cold. The body of one of the lady students of the
institution named
Charity Maina, a 3rd year pursuing a course in
Arts and Social Sciences. The student was killed in a beastly manner; raped
then killed by unknown persons (of course a resident of the institution) and I do
call upon the Heavens for intervention here for I am a Christian and God alone
is to judge this inhuman act.
A couple of hours later, the students could not help it but demonstrate
and the campus was filled with lamentations and all sorts of noise all
demanding for justice. Kesses police station policemen arrived to calm the
situation but found themselves pressed between a wall and a hard place
prompting them to flee for dear life. They fled leaving behind a land rover at
the mercy of the students who decided to go for the phrase “ashes for ashes” and all that was left
of the vehicle was a hard, unrecognizable metal, probably of use to the juakali
artisans.
A friend of mine was already at Eldoret town, heading back
to campus from a short vacation and I pitied her since she was not going to
alight at the main stage (credit goes to the students for blocking the road
with different shapes and sizes of stones)The body of our departed comrade is
currently at Moi Referral Hospital for a postmortem. A somber mood still hangs
within the institution, each student keeping his/her thoughts to
himself/herself but one thing remains clear, it’s our wish that the culprits
are apprehended and dealt with accordingly by the responsible authority.
My question is, do
you think the current state of security within the institution is wanting?
R.I.P. departed comrade.
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