SITUATION HAS CALMED DOWN AT UON TWO WEEKS AFTER ALLEDGED THIEVES WERE KILLED BY STUDENTS

By Maritim Evans

Situation at the University of Nairobi Main Campus has calmed down a week after two students alleged to be thieves were murdered in cold blood by their fellow students.

At least no single incident of insecurity has been reported so far and students are happy since they can now stay without fear of theft within the university. Eventhough the two students who were killed were not fully identified as thieves, students still claim that the two together with three other suspects, who escaped, usually snatch electronic gadgets from students who go for night and morning preps.

 Even as the students celebrate the calmed situation at the university, parents of the deceased students are still looking for justice. The two families have been camping at the security desk at the university and demanding to know the reason why security guards  did no rescue their children.

Hall 2 hostel. The suspects were beaten up by students outside this hall.

Even as that continue, this writer sought to know reaction of some students who witnessed the two alleged thieves when they were being beaten up.

“It was like a joke at first since some students beat them and asking questions. I was shocked when I heard that they both died before even being attended by doctors,” a student who sought anonymity said.

According to students, it was not the fall of the students to kill the two suspects. Students said the suspects refused to give names of three other suspects who ran away with a snatched laptop.

“We didn’t mean to kill them. It is only that they refused to talk and tell us who ran away with the laptop. In the process of asking the questions, the students had to beat the two to prompt them to speak, but they did not speak," another student said.

Students cannot sympathize with a thief suspect. At the moment they have identified that one is a suspect, they cannot stop beating one. In fact no one can stop them from doing so, not even university security guards who normally watch it from a distance.

In many instances, security guards usually do not miss some injuries in the process of trying to rescue the suspected thieves.

 Most institutions of higher learning have failed to address the issue of theft and this has made theft be an order of the day. Some universities have tried to safeguard their entrances by not allowing outsiders to enter in, but this has not helped since students are stealing within themselves. Kenyatta University is a good example of a university that has well guarded entrances. But still, theft is common there.