UoN students block roads, demand VC Mbithi's resignation

University of Nairobi students on Tuesday blocked Lower Kabete Road protesting last week's invasion and assault by police.

Last night, students at the main campus also held demonstrations and barricaded Mamlaka Road and State House Road before police dispersed them.

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students are also demanding the resignation of vice chancellor Prof Peter Mbithi, accusing him of allegedly inviting the anti-riot police to invade classes and

halls to assault students.

The officers fired gunshots in the air to disband them.

Motorists are warned of possible protests in several other campuses today.

The Thursday assault on students has attracted public outcry and condemnation by human rights activists and lawyers.

Video recordings of the police, believed to be drawn from the General Service Unit, were widely shared on social media platforms.

The clips show the officers raiding students in their hostels, libraries and even lecture halls and beating them with riot batons.

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The Law Society of Kenya condemned the beating of the students and termed it brutal.

"What happened is the worst form of cruelty. It is not even permitted under the Geneva Convention in war. It is worse than the colonial concentration camps, but this is clear proof of a police service that is hell-bent to extend the culture of brutality and impunity," chairman Isaac Okero said in a statement.

He said LSK will open private prosecutions on individual officers in seven days if the Internal Affairs Unit of the police does not take action.

George Morara, the vice chairman of KNCHR, said the commission and the Independent Policing Oversight Authority will pursue the case.

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