JKUAT Karen Campus closed after riots

Written by Daniel Saenyi

JKUAT students blocking the Bogani road after one of the Karen Campus students was knocked dead by an overspeeding car. [Photo|Daniel Saenyi]

Students of Jomo Kenyatta University Karen Campus poured to the streets blocking the Bogani road completely for over three hours protesting the death of one of their colleagues who was knocked dead by a private car.

During the car accident, another student was injured and is nursing his wounds at a Nairobi hospital.

The students complained of negligence as they have been complaining of the narrow road for over a year and over speeding by motorists but all has fallen on deaf ears.

The driver of the over speeding car tried to speed away but was intercepted by the angry students who threatened to lynch him before he was rescued by police who arrived on time to save him from the enraged students.

In addition, the students were incensed as they had to call for an ambulance on their own to save the life of the girl student.

On the morning of Oct 18, 2011 students were assembled by the campus principal to urge them to remain calm about the incident, a move which seemed to have worked in reverse as the students immediately took off to the roads to protest.

They barricaded Langata South road for over n three hours stopping traffic. School officials promised to ask the City Council to start building bumps along the road immediately.

However students did not seem to agree as they started throwing stones prompting police to unleash teargas against them. 

It was a hide and seek game with the police for a while and the police finally managed to take control of the situation and no student was injured in the protest. 

This has come as a challenge for the recently elected student council and seems they have gotten quite a handful in their first week in office. 

It is up to the student leaders to try and make students calm down as learning has been interrupted. 

The campus has been closed down until Monday Oct 24, 2011 when classes will hopefully resume amidst threats by some students that if no repairs are made on the road by Monday they will definitely protest again.

Who Tipped Off Mbarire and Lumumba?

Written By Daniel Saenyi

Some call Him Jah, Jehovah, Mohammed, Dios, or Were, with each believing theirs is the true God despite the fact that he’s one being with a billion aliases. When it comes to politics, the recent additional ‘religion,’ every one seems to have their God as the case of Cecil Mbarire and PLO Lumumba.

This scenario leaves one wondering what God really represents. Did He tip off Mrs. Mbarire as she claims, or did He tip off Lumumba? Or is He part of the conspiracy? All in all Politics is a dirty game and no one comes out clean.

It’s only in times of need that we remember this superior being, or when we don’t jump into fire from the frying pan as Mbarire did. Her not falling into Lumumba’s trap was CPR to her faith though she is a prayerful woman, her words not mine.

PLO Lumumba, KACC, Boss

On the other hand Lumumba also claims to have the almighty’s help in not falling into  Mbarire’s trap, “its by the grace of God that we managed to nail them when they were expecting to nail us,” Said Lumumba.

Clearly God can’t be the savior of both these parties, as much as he is merciful; the guy has some nasty temper when it comes to evil doers.  He destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah for their futilities, Cain went crazy, and the 10 Plagues, well, He is messy too. He is no Joker. With all this considered, He is on the righteous side helping out while the other has some mysterious force to their aid not the Almighty.

The fact remains that there are three sides to a story, the two party’s versions, and the true version, God always supports the true side of the story. If He is the one who helped both sides, how do people know who is telling the truth then?, or is the devil on the third side of the story this time round? This is the question that I doubt even our clergy can pin an answer to.

When it comes to passing Judgment God has a mean way of doing so and this case no one has been judged yet, but not to rush things, lets wait and see maybe one will be struck by lighting, though am not a voodoo priest, but  they will face justice.

Cecil Mbarire showing her Evidence to the Press

As both parties claim to have Gods help, we should have a battle whose God is greater the Elijah style, Mbarire’s or Lumumba? we should have each of them build an alter and let them pray until one  catches fire, then the virtuous one will be revealed. But that’s just me; in this techno world anything is possible if babies can miraculously be born and disappear.

The two parties’ have made the agenda of the day with their scandal without providing full proof evidence to incriminate the other, both have been saved from the clutches of the other by the catalyst, “God” who seems to have made the situation more complicated. That might just be the reason both parities have him as witness as he can’t appear before the court, and even if he did, who will He swear to?

Lumumba and Mbarire can go for each others jugular for all we care but at the end of the day, its ones word against the other. The only person who knows the truth to pass the correct judgment is no citizen of any country, and not even a being for that matter, as tax payers we are all counting on our Mystery God to deliver us from this evil of corruption.