Insecurity
has been a great challenge all over the country and Moi university main campus
as institution has been experiencing series of causes related to insecurity in
the recent past. Students have been complaining of frequent theft, personal
threats from others, others trailed by unknowns at night but the most recent
one called for an alarm in bringing resolutions in the security bill of the
university’s constitution.
Yesterday
was a fateful Sunday as one of the female students was found dead around Bucca
hostel. As per the evidence Charity Muthoni Maina from the school of arts and
social sciences, was raped before murdered and dumped in a bush around the
hostel. The incident resultedtoa riot from the student claiming for insecurity
in the campus. This led to clashes between the anti-riot police and the
students that left some student injured and one of the police land rovers razed
in fire.
The students
had threatened of more destructions if the administration especially the Vice
Chancellor would not address them on the matter and point out to them the
actions taken on the tragedy.
To his
response the Moi university vice chancellor Prof Mibey and the deputy vice
chancellor student affairs pointed out the immediate actions to be put into
action to cub the problem. This included setting up a new hostel that will
reside all the female students inside the university hostels in a period of one
month, starting a police patrol at night in all of the places where any student
resides to make sure that all the students are secured, working close with the
landlords around the school to make sure that the rentals are secured and all
the bushes around are cleared, regulating the operating time of the clubs
around the school and others.
In all this
it is now up to the administration and the students themselves to corporate and
make sure the new policies are imposed. Peter Marshall a philosopher and a poet
says “small deeds done are better than big deeds planned”
