Could
the Vice Chancellor’s speech calm the angry crowd of mourning students? many
students awaited professor Mibey outside the administration block to address
them about insecurity issues facing the entire students fraternity in Moi
University today.
It was
really a triumphant entry of upset students to the administration building demonstrating
after an ironic death of a third year female student. Charity Muthoni Maina was
in the School of Arts specializing in English and Literature. She met with the
mysterious death on Sunday during night time at stage where she lived. This
triggered the comrades into a tremendous demonstration that led to a police
jeep being burnt to ashes.
The
Deputy Vice Chancellor tried to address the students but he only managed to
reach a small part of the crowd. He said that security and accommodation
affairs of the students will be taken as the core business before the month
ends. Some of the measures he mentioned included; moving all female students
from stage to the hostels inside the university, employing more security guards
to patrol around the hostels during night time, ensuring that there are street
lights in all the hostels and ensuring completion of the unfinished hostels
i.e. I, M and N.
Later,
the students demanded to be addressed by the Vice Chancellor. It took a couple
of minutes before he could appear. The students pushed around the senate
building entrance till he could start his speech. He couldn’t address the
students conveniently as the atmosphere was not calm for his speech. Apparently, he could be heard trying to calm
the students. He more or less repeated the same measures his deputy had
mentioned.
The
unsatisfied students moved towards the stage disagreeing with the proposed
reccommendations by the VC. The big question that remained unanswered is that,
could there be a tragedy in the university so that the concerned stakeholders
to act?
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