Early
this morning, students of Moi University’s main campus pretended to be
surprised at the 3-hour damages they caused yesterday evening, approximately
Ksh. 300,000 (figures quoted by one student leader).
It
all began yesterday, with a power blackout in the SOWETO hostels that persisted
past the students’ ‘cooking hours’. Charged with hunger and frustration, the
students collected themselves into a mass movement and began a demonstration
towards the administration block, where, being on a Sunday, little help could
be obtained.
The
demonstrators then matched to the students’ centre, where they forced the
director of Security and Accommodation, Mr. Beryl Guyo, to officially announce
a peaceful demonstration as from 9am the following day. Left with no other
option, Guyo declared the demonstration and even urged students to turn out in
large numbers.
However,
that seemed to be a story of another day, otherwise the students had to find a
way of filling up their stomachs. From the students’ centre, they matched from
one hostel to the other around SOWETO area with shouts and whistles, a strategy
that was purely meant to expand the crowd. It worked.
Then
it was time for supper and The Moon Shop was identified as the nearest point to
serve the hungry students. It took them almost an hour to break the strong
metallic door and the looting began. It was around 11pm. Nothing was forgiven,
from loaves of bread, cash money (from MPESA), juices, flour, to anything else
present in the shop, including pampers.
To
the left of The Moon Shop is a chips café, which sells chips, chapattis,
maandazi, sausages and sausages. A better section of the crowd killed their
hunger at this point.
At
around midnight, the students went to bed, having caused what they are now
getting surprised at.
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