Nelson Havi who will lead a team of defence lawyers. [Photo/kenyadigest.com]A team of re-known lawyers will defend University of Nairobi (UoN) students said to have been expelled from the institution following Thursday’s protests at the main campus in Nairobi.
Lawyer Nelson Havi will lead a team of legal minds in challenging grounds under which the students were expelled after day-long clashes with the police on September 28.
The students were protesting against the arrest of Embakasi East MP and former Students Organisation of Nairobi University (SONU) Chairman Babu Owino.
“The 35 University of Nairobi students will be defended by me and a team of volunteer lawyers. The government of Kenya and its criminal gang is warned not to interfere with the safety and liberty of the students or that of the defense team,” Havi said Tuesday after UoN was closed over what the institution referred to as “security concerns”.
Havi blamed a group of Jubilee insiders for the student’s expulsion.
He accused Jubilee’s Digital Strategist Dennis Itumbi, Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria and his Kikuyu counterpart Kimani Ichung’wa of drafting a list that comprised names of students from regions allied to the opposition National Super Alliance as organisers of the demos.
“Dennis Itumbi, Moses Kuria and Kimani Ichung'wa ethnically profiled and expelled 35 University of Nairobi students. The 35 students need protection, not from the police, but against the police, who are directed by the three individuals.”
On Monday morning, three days after the protests in which police were accused of brutally beating students, Ichung’wa posted on Twitter saying the ringleaders of the demos had been identified.
“University of Nairobi identified ringleaders of the previous demos, surprisingly; most of them are Omondi, Otieno, Ochieng. Have been expelled,” he wrote on Twitter.