Kenyatta University students main campus yesterday demonstrated and barricaded the busy Thika highway following the brutal killing of fellow student on Saturday night. Transport along the super highway and business operations around the university was paralysed the entire Sunday as students engaged anti-riot police in running battles.
The students were protesting the killing of Felix Mageto, a third-year student found dead near the popular Kiwanja market early yesterday. He was the reigning Mr Ruiru Campus.
Details of his death remained scanty but police preliminary investigations indicated that the student may have been a victim of a violent robbery. “It appears he was attacked by people who wanted to steal from him,” said a junior police investigator at the murder scene. Angry students who learned about the killing began group meetings as early as 9am to discuss what they said is soaring insecurity in and around the university.
The students later poured onto the highway after church services and barricaded the road forcing motorists to seek alternative routes to and from Thika town and Nairobi. They also raided shops and broke into M-pesa shops at Kiwanja market where they destroyed property worth millions of shillings.
Motorists who attempted to drive through the barricade were stoned. Anti-riot police who arrived a few hours after the riots had started were forced to used teargas to force the rioting students back into the campus compound. Police confirmed that they had launched investigations into the killing.
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