Tension as yet another student dies at Moi University

Moi University Main Campus students yesterday engaged police in running battles after a colleague was found dead in one of the hostels. The third-year education student was found dead early morning and his death remained a mystery.



Mr Jared Mogire, Moi University Student’s Organisation chairman, said the students carried the corpse to Kesses Police Station to express their anger over the incident. “He returned last night with two friends, also students, from clubbing and he slept in their room. In the morning he was found dead,” he said.

Mr Mogire said students had thought his death was due to insecurity. Police officers teargassed the rowdy students to disperse them. Mr Mogire said the two students who were with their fallen colleague were arrested by police officers and taken into custody to help in investigations.

The body of the student was taken to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. Eldoret South OCPD Esther Muhoro said police had launched investigations into the incident. Students at the university have witnessed a series of calamities this month. On Tuesday, a first-year student stabbed to death another in what is suspected to be a love triangle.




Last year, in February, a female student also died in unclear circumstances. Ms Charity Maina, a third-year Bachelor of Education student’s body was discovered by passers-by in a thicket, a few metres from the off-campus Bucca Estate, where she shared a rented room with another student.

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