University of Nairobi student runs as GSU policemen disperse students protesting the detention of an opposition legislator in Nairobi. [PHOTO/the-star.co.ke]
University of Nairobi students have narrated their agony at the hands of anti-riot police officers who assaulted them Thursday last week
Female students said the police used vulgar language with others touching them indecently and almost raping them.
A third-year Real Estate student said she was nearly raped in the washrooms, but was kicked, injured and then robbed of her Sh1,000.
"If it wasn't for a library security officer who was coming into the washroom, they would have pushed me into the toilet. I can easily identify the two officers if I see them," she said as quoted by the Star.
"Two ladies and myself were almost raped in Room 520. They asked us vulgar questions like: Umevaa suruali? Na unawezaitoa? (Do you have your underwear? Can you remove it?). They touched our bodies," said another.
The students said officers beat up a colleague who had already fainted and continued injuring her in her unconscious state.
"Their interest was not security. It was stealing and destroying," added a third-year female Quantity Surveyor student said.
Here are more of the witness revelations from the students.
"It's disheartening for the university to post on its official Twitter account that things are normal. The management has abandoned us and doesn't care because things are not clearly back to normal."
"Rather than confine themselves to keeping the peace and reducing violence, the forces degenerated into the very violence the IG claims they were trying to stop."
"When I refused (to grope my classmate), he beat me up.They stole our money and electronics like phones, power banks and hard-disks. They would not allow us to collect our bags. Help us seek justice."