STRIKING KISUMU POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS SENT HOME

May 30, 2014 Musungu Mwenyeji Kisumu, News 0

Kisumu Polytechnic Students were yesterday treated to the hard reality of rioting when they decided to create havoc after a misunderstanding with the School Administration.

It is said that the students leaders who were previously in a meeting with the administration to find a solution to the entertainment subject got a raw deal prompting a mass action and a deliberate strike to get the attention of the Principal Mrs. Joyce Nyamjom.

A rush meeting was held between the students and the Principal to find an amicable solution to the planned Culture day but was quickly disrupted when the Principal Mrs. Nyanjom said that students entertainments was now out of plan with claims that money was not enough to do the entertainment. She also said that because of security reasons it was not good to hold such events in the College premises.

Things went haywire as the students turned wild over what they considered to be an attempt to undermine their rights, heckling and destroying property prompting the administration to call for more security inform of the police.

A student altercation with the Boda Boda riders caused an unlikely combination between the Boda Boda and the police leading to serious beating met on the students along the Entrance to the Polytechnic and the Estates nearby Makasembo and Ondiek Estate.

According to a student who we are not going to name

It has been reputation over the years that we have been holding such kind of events and paying the entertainment money ever since and now its coming to our a tension that the services we have been enjoying are now going to be put on stake

He added that the Police used brute force using teargas and random shots to disperse them prompting the conflict that lead to an uncontrolled mass action.

Over 20 students were injured and some had to be hospitalized.