FAMILIES OF TWO UON STUDENTS KILLED LAST WEEKEND STILL LOOKING FOR ASNWERS

By Maritim Evans

Parents of two University of Nairobi Students who were killed by a mob of students last weekend are still seeking to know what made other students kill their children.

It has been a hard time for the two families as the university administration is failing to give them substantive answers of what really made other students kill Julius Omondi Omollo and Fetya Mohammed Yusuf.

The families have been camping at the offices of the Student Welfare Authority at the university since Sunday from morning to evening.

Journalists, who visited the offices, could not be told anything as no one among the security personnel there was ready to share any information with them. Every security guard would say they were not in a position to share any information with the media since they are not authorised to do so.

On Tuesday, the university Vice Chancellor Prof Peter Mbithi sent a statement to newsrooms expressing how students were beaten up and later on succumbed to injuries.

Students beating suspected thieves in the past. PHOTO/COURTESY

“The beating continued but the university security personnel who condemned the act on the spot intervened and they were hurt in the course of rescuing the suspects whom they rushed to the clinic at the University Health Service. One of the suspects passed on while at the university health services, the other one was rushed to MP Shah Hospital where he was admitted but passed on thereafter,” the statement Prof Mbithi sent to newsrooms reads in parts.

The suspects were self sponsored students who are not given accommodation within the university. Their registration numbers, according to university management, portrayed this.

“The two suspects were later identified as non-resident students by their names,” the statement stated.

The university has however condemned the act and warned students against taking law in their saying that is not acceptable.

“The University of Nairobi highly regrets this unfortunate incident. The university reiterates that it upholds the rule of law and has no place for the law of the jungle where people take the law in their hands and condemns strongly the act of mob-justice by the students involved,” the statement added.

According to the statement the university stated that it had contacted the parents of the deceased to condone with them and promised thorough investigation into the matter. A sentiment that was refused by the parents of the students saying they had not received any information from the university and they are still blank on what made other students kill their children.