A first-year student of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (Jkuat) was on Thursday night stabbed to death while resisting robbers.
Youthful Tabitha Muthoni was walking near Segal Hotel at 8pm together with a friend when they were confronted by thugs who forced them to surrender their mobile phones.
Tabitha is reported to have put up a resistance while her friend complied. A confrontation ensued and Tabitha was stabbed on the neck sustaining serious injuries, before the thugs fled.
She was rushed to Jkuat hospital where she succumbed to her injuries.
Students union officials have organised a demonstration on Friday to protest insecurity at the institution, according to reports. In a notice, Jomo Kenyatta University Students Association (Jkusa) officials called on students to assemble at 9am before matching for a peaceful demonstration to protest the murder and raising insecurity.
“This is to inform all students that we will be having a peaceful demonstration in Juja Enviros. Following series of killings, most recent having been on 7th Feb 2019 at Segal Hotel,” the notice read in part.
A similar incident occurred in May, 2018. In the latter case, a student from the same institution was stabbed to death when he alighted in Juja from a meet-up with friends while heading to his house located near the institution.
