ZETECH COLLEGE STUDENT GOT STEALING AT UON:

ZETECH COLLEGE STUDENT GOT STEALING AT UON MAIN CAMPUS HOSTEL

By Maritim Kipngetich

Zetech College student, who has been living in one of the University of Nairobi’s Main Campus hostels (Hall 5) illegally for the past three years, was yesterday got stealing and taken to Kileleswa Police Station.

The culprit, who identified himself as Joshua Mureithi, also posses three different student identification cards from three different institutions namely the University of Nairobi (UoN), Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and Zetech College.

Mureithi, who has been pretending to be a first year at UoN for the last three years in order to be granted accommodation, has been stealing phones and other valuables from students.

“He (Mureithi) has been stealing our items particularly phones. I got him at a knick of time yesterday trying to steal my tablet in my room. I reported him to Student welfare Authority security guards. He tried to escape, but we got him at the stairs and took him to Kileleswa Police Station,” Joshua Mwangi, a first year second semester tourism student, narrated.

Mwangi said the villain has lived in different rooms since the start of the semester. “He used to live in room 401where he stole three phones before he was chased away by his ‘roommates’. He then asked his friend in room 403 to accommodate him where he stole three phones again. On Sunday he stole a key from next-door which he later used to open the door at night and stole four phones that were left in charging,” Mwangi said.

Zetech College management declined to comment on the issue saying they cannot be involved with atrocities being done by students outside the college.

Cases of theft are all too familiar across UoN main campus. Yesterday, a laptop that belongs to Victor Onyango was stolen in room 409 at the same hall (Hall 5) in the eveni

ng. Victor said his roommate forgot to lock the door and he had left the laptop in an open wardrobe.

“My laptop was stolen yesterday at around 5 p.m. I had placed it inside the suitcase and kept it inside the cabinet,” Victor said.

The thieves are targeting electronics especially pocket-size devices like phones and laptops.

In June this year, a fourth year engineering student was got stealing in UoN Prefabs hostel where first years were living. The students took the law into their hands and beat him hard. The effort by university security guards to rescue him proved futile. He was later pronounced death in the hospital where  he was taken for treatment.