Juja-based JKUAT students have been demonstrating for a better part of the day and the State deployed anti-riot teams to ‘calm down’ the situation. Students were demonstrating against increased insecurity in and around the institution.
An amateur video recorded in Juja exhibits a few tricks and merciless ‘techniques’ our forces graduated with after a year-plus training on how to handle riot by unarmed citizens. In the video, a JKUAT student named Allan Omondi, was captured in between the soldiers boots and clubs receiving a mob beating from soldiers who cared for nothing about his life after.
The video shows 5 officers violently beating a JKUAT student whose right leg is heavily bandaged. One of the officers is seen kicking his head, tugging his hair, and beating with batons.
Here is the video courtesy of Linus Kaikai.
NO. pic.twitter.com/IkqGk7x3qC
— Linus Kaikai (@LinusKaikai) November 11, 2019
The institution has since been closed and all students ordered to vacate the premises by the end of the day.
Many Kenyans had mixed reactions on the video that captured yet another police brutality with some alleging that Juja town is full of drug traffickers and unemployed youths that are terrorizing locals and students.
Here are randomly sampled reactions from Kenyan on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/johnnjenga/status/1193989248195715073?s=19
This is how the guys tasked with ensuring security in Juja are beating up innocent JKUAT students for protesting over insecurity. @NPSOfficial_KE @DCI_Kenya @IPOA_KE#jkuat pic.twitter.com/VfvYtaqfGz
— Ian Duncan (@IanDuncan__) November 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/nyakwara_albert/status/1193891400871337987?s=19
https://twitter.com/TonyGachoka/status/1193912751195918337?s=19
https://twitter.com/HEBabuOwino/status/1193986806678740994?s=19
The violence meted on JKUAT students is barbaruc, evil and UNACCEPTABLE.
As stakeholders, we will not watch students get maimed in school by those who should protect them.
Radical actions to follow.#jkuat— Agnes Kagure (@itsagneskagure) November 11, 2019
Protesting because of the increased crime rate in juja, yet drugs are being sold in every corner, what do you expect?#jkuat
— bosi 🧊 (@bosibori_Ke) November 11, 2019
#jkuat is not a university where students just dream of riots and wake up to actualize it. There has been so many cases of student stabbing and nothing is being done, as Jkuat student it terrifies me too and would have joined them is I was in that campus. Jkuat has smart Kenyans
— Moranð“…“ (@ItsMoran_) November 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/SamNjugunaN/status/1194007177176002564
