Video showing UoN students being whipped goes viral
- 5 years ago
A video showing GSU officers whipping University of Nairobi students during Monday’s protests has gone viral on social media.
In the video, the students are seen lying on the ground being whipped by several police officers armed with clubs.
Nairobi Police chief Japheth Koome called a press conference to address the matter on Tuesday morning.
The protests turned violent after a group of students opposed to the re-election of Babu Owino as SONU chairman started stoning motorists around the university after torching the union leaders’ offices.
Police have been engaging the aggrieved students since Sunday following their elections that they claim were marred by irregularities.
Owino however maintains that he won fairly and there was no foul play in the polls.
“Mike was not even initially in the race for the chairmanship. He came only three weeks to the elections. Mike never even campaigned in any campus apart from main campus where he won with a very slight margin of votes,” he stated.
“Tomorrow if I want to take my people to celebrate my victory in the streets I will do so but we do not have to do so. The University of Nairobi has 84,000 students. Only less than 300 students were demonstrating. Does it show that the UoN students did not accept Babu?”
In the video, the students are seen lying on the ground being whipped by several police officers armed with clubs.
Nairobi Police chief Japheth Koome called a press conference to address the matter on Tuesday morning.
The protests turned violent after a group of students opposed to the re-election of Babu Owino as SONU chairman started stoning motorists around the university after torching the union leaders’ offices.
Police have been engaging the aggrieved students since Sunday following their elections that they claim were marred by irregularities.
Owino however maintains that he won fairly and there was no foul play in the polls.
“Mike was not even initially in the race for the chairmanship. He came only three weeks to the elections. Mike never even campaigned in any campus apart from main campus where he won with a very slight margin of votes,” he stated.
“Tomorrow if I want to take my people to celebrate my victory in the streets I will do so but we do not have to do so. The University of Nairobi has 84,000 students. Only less than 300 students were demonstrating. Does it show that the UoN students did not accept Babu?”