A male student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (Jkuat) is nursing serious injuries after being stabbed by thugs in the neck and mouth area on Wednesday, November 20, at around 9 p.m.
According to a source who spoke to Kenyans.co.ke, the student was in the company of two other students while thugs armed with knives attacked them outside Safari Hostel along the road to Gachororo area.
“The two gentlemen were escorting a female friend to her hostel while thugs attacked them and demanded their phones. The student was stabbed multiple times around the mouth and neck areas leading to him bleeding profusely where he was later rushed to JKUAT hospital,” the source narrated.
“The thugs took advantage of a temporary electricity outage around the area to court the students and conduct the heinous act. Comrades are not safe anymore,” added the source.
The incident came a week after another student lost her life at the hands of thugs, an action that led to massive protests by the students that were met with brutality by anti-riot police.
The November 12, demos led to an assurance of beefed up security from the Central Regional Commissioner Wilfred Nyagwanga, Kiambu County Commissioner Wilson Wanyanga, Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria and Jkuat Vice-Chancellor, Victoria Ngumi.
On February 7, at around 7 p.m., Tabitha Muthoni, a first-year student at the institution was stabbed in the neck near Seagull Hotel where she later succumbed to the injuries after trying to put up a fight with her attackers.
The recent incident has led to a renewed uproar from students on social media condemning the police in the area for laxity in maintaining security.
“The buck doesn't stop at the police. Juja's insecurity was born out of a structural policy directive from the Vice Chancellor's office to out source student accommodation not for the benefit of the students but landlord lecturers,” Michael Mburu wrote.
“Nowadays villagers are bitter jobless graduates. They have no respect for students whatsoever,” Waluvengo Barrack added.
“Juja is becoming black spot for students and Jkuat is already recalling the students and money is the first thing they are talking about. I'm not coming back until this issue is resolved.” wrote one Ogello Says.
“As the secretary-general Kenya University Students Union, I'm deeply saddened by yet another killing of an innocent comrade in Juja. How many lives do we have to loose for the authorities to come to senses that all is not well! Sad day to comrades fraternity! Shame!!!,” Sir Makori Orina added.
