The Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) is once again on the spot over violent attacks against students at the institution.
This comes barely a week after the comrades staged demonstrations against the increasing levels of insecurity around the Juja based campus.
Ironically, the authorities, who the students were seeking to beseech to come to their aid during the demonstrations, turned on them, kicking and clobbering students in a reign of terror that trickled into a gunshot rented night.
In the latest case, a student was allegedly stabbed at Gashororo area, just outside a hostel gate by unknown assailants.
A #JKUAT student has been stabbed in Gashororo outside Safari Hostel gate. The Situation at #Juja is getting out of hand & Must be contained. This is the problem of involving thugs to join the police to stop peaceful demonstrations. The thugs elevate themselves to untouchables.
— BRAVIN™ (@BravinYuri) November 20, 2019
Students at the varsity have decried the absence of security forces even after the promise made by police after the early November riots.
Security for comrades in #juja is key. The police promised security pale #jkuat but pia hawa wamekua politicians, promises tupu. AGAIN, security for comrades is KEY. #JKUATLivesMatters
— Hulius (@Hulius_) November 21, 2019
The #JKUAT students are not asking for more than the security to be beefed up. That's all they want to be safe at school and its environs but not to live in fear uncertain what will happen the next moment. Can someone give them a listening ear
— Kelvin Kibugi (@KelvinKibugi) November 21, 2019
Solving the insecurity issues regularly raised by students has been derailed by the fact that, while some students reside within the school’s hostels, a large section resides in private apartments outside the campus, making it hard for JKUAT administration to impose security rules outside its jurisdiction.
When we demonstrate they brutally beat us up to shut us at night we are killed like dogs yet they claim to give us security..pathetic just pathetic…#morning_rush⚡⚡ #Comradeslifematter #jkuat
— Melvin loud (@melvin_loud) November 21, 2019
The police who are supposed to protect us at night are always busy collecting bribes from pubs, wine and spirits joints.
They are just puppets#jkuat
— Domicile herb (@domicileherb) November 21, 2019
Its getting out of hand……..
Police cant continue ignoring and blushing it off just like. Gashororo has always been an insecure place. Not now, started long time ago. #jkuat
— Domicile herb (@domicileherb) November 21, 2019
In February, a female student, in her first year at the campus, was stabbed to death after resisting a robbery attempt by thugs at Seagull Hotel area.
During the Nov. 13 demonstrations, the discord between the JKUAT students and the neighbouring community was highlighted after a video emerged, of locals roughing up a rioting student, and throwing him into a ditch filled with sewerage water.
Look at this now😭Some #juja residents went ahead and did this to a #jkuat student. Walimrusha kwa maji ya sewage! Juja community hamna huruma kidogo? Are you in your right minds? Dunderheads! These hooligans' faces should be noted na ashikwe. Ifikie Matiangi. #jkuatlivesmatter pic.twitter.com/Roc6Mwxjzc
— S.G.M♧ (@gachoka_muraya) November 11, 2019
Other students were also reportedly attacked and injured by aggrieved locals.