Kenya: Students plan demonstrations

  1. Posted on Tuesday 10 March 2009 - 09:30
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    Alex Kiarie, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya Photo: Lameck Nyagudi
    Students drawn from different universities and other middle class polytechnics in Kenya have served notice to protest on Tuesday, following the death of two human rights activists in the country by unknown assailants and a University of Nairobi student who was shot dead by the country's police.
    Lameck Nyagudi riots in the streets of kenya
    The student, Godwin Ogaro, was killed by a bullet shot by the police as he and his colleagues protested the killings of the human rights activists, Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulo.

    There are fears of transport being paralyzed across the country, as fears of violent confrontations between students and the police raise. So far, the police have declared the demonstrations illegal. However, student leaders led by Students Organization of Nairobi University (SONU) chair, Dan Mwangi, have vowed to go on with the demonstrations.

    Meanwhile, the planned protest rallies have won the backing of the Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Speaking to the student leaders from different universities and polytechnics, the Prime Minister called on the police to ensure that the protests are peacefull.

    He also assured the students that they will not be expelled from their respective institutions of learning for participating in the protests. Other organisations that have vowed to participate in the demonstrations are different human rights organisations, including the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), Bunge La Mwananchi among others.

    At the same time, the prime minister also called upon Kenya's Minister of Internal Security to facilitate the inclusion of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation, and ensure that the Kenyan Police works with sleuths from FBI to get to the bottom of the murder of the two human rights activists-Oscar and Paul Oulo.

    The American government had on Friday offered to have the FBI help in the investigations.

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