Post by jakaswanga on Feb 28, 2018 22:04:58 GMT 3
The Police Execution of MERU UNIVERSITY STUDENT LEADER, Evans Njoroge 'Kidero'
Meru University student leader Evans Njoroge alias Kidero who was killed on February 27, 2018
The poltical class and the chattering entourage are all busy elsewhere ...
then an event happens. And the rest seem to be side-shows. The rest is all the shenanigans the political class, elite and top bureaucrats partake to, in the name of the business of running (down) the country.
THE CHASE TO THE POTATO FARM
From eye witness accounts, it was a tracking down, and then an extra-judicial. It was premeditated, cold-blooded and executed as if it was a contract: a contract killing. It was point blanc.
MOTIVE?
The motive, why this policeman chased down a flamboyant university student leader to his hide-out, and shot him to death in broad daylight, must be a series of complicated (mental and cultural) constructions which, unraveled, will give us a fearsome but truthful rating of the status of the nation.
Evans Njoroge (aka Kidero) was a popular mobilser. A student Union is like a trade Union. Ever busy with the welfare of its core fraternity. In this case, of Meru University, the quality of education and the fees going with it was the permanent bone of contention. And the Sec-Gen Njoroge was at the heart of articulating those grievances and mobilising his fellow students to take a firm stand to improve things. The management of the institute, personified in the unmoving Vice Chancellor, Japheth Magambo, saw it all as nothing doing, mere trouble-making. In deed Over the past 12 months, the University has been a crisis zone. The latest closure was onf Februari 1 2018.
The background therefore seems to be a classic case of conflict in a stalemate, where unionised activists and their interests are pitted against a conservative profit-addicted management/ownership, and their vested interests of course. To tame dissent emanating from labour, Big capital has always hired gunmen, be they rogue cops, to lay low activists. Killer cops moonlighting as hit-men for the ruling class, or underworld assassins in the employe of organised crime, have always come in handy.
But if this cop lives to be honest to tell his story, we will get his particular pathology if it was not a hit, for cash. For then it would be something personal. You know, stuff like the guy looked like a local womaniser mowing both his daughter and wife, and colleagues grinning humiliatingly at him, what he is gonna do about it when!?
The call such crimes of passion.
This was broad day light. With witnesses. There must have been a blind blanket over the copper's consciousness. Blind fury?drugged high? Promised cash reward? Shame exculpatory vengeance?
Whatever the case, he perpetrated a deed which further darkens the relationship between the police force -utumishi kwa wote, and the constitution which some of us still like to pretend is in action.
Everywhere the police is busy dispersing demonstrating youth with live fire. And weekly there is some such event. -whether it is charcoal related road-blocks of deflated tyres; whether it is road blocks to protest Miguna's illegal deportation; whether it is roadblocks in Nakuru to protest ethnic profiling in Uasin Gishu, or anti-charcoal road vigilantism in Eastern the police descend in combat mode. It looks like a radically intense situation. Militarised. Yet overwhelming firepower on the police side.
The death of young Evans Njoroge, alias Kidero, secretary general of Meru University Students Association, may be the event which brings to an end the era of carefree student demonstrations. It is no longer teargas, truncheons, rawhide whips, butt kicks and an occasional rape here and there at the female halls at the hands of the GSU. It is assassination and targeted killings.
This reality has been chilling brought home to the best thinking section of the youth: University students. It will be interesting to see what strategies they come up with to face the new bloody reality. Power is not bearing fangs. Power is drawing blood. Chilling and ruthless. And openly.
Meru University? It should be renamed (Evans) Njoroge University. And February 27th, Njoroge day. The guy is a martyr.
Meru University Students mill around the body of one of their student leaders on February 27, after he was shot in the head allegedly by a police man in Nchiru
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001271379/police-shoot-kill-meru-university-student-leader-as-protests-turn-ugly
Meru University student leader Evans Njoroge alias Kidero who was killed on February 27, 2018
The poltical class and the chattering entourage are all busy elsewhere ...
then an event happens. And the rest seem to be side-shows. The rest is all the shenanigans the political class, elite and top bureaucrats partake to, in the name of the business of running (down) the country.
THE CHASE TO THE POTATO FARM
POTATO FARM
Residents of Nchiru in the neighbourhood of university recounted how a police officer pursued Njoroge, spotted him hiding under a tree and shot him as he ran away.
The macabre killing played out in a sweet potato farm as the owner, his wife and daughter watched.
Speaking to the Nation, the woman (name withheld for security and personal reasons) and her daughter said two officers from Nchiru Police Station entered their home in a vehicle as they pursued the rioting students before training their guns on Njoroge
Residents of Nchiru in the neighbourhood of university recounted how a police officer pursued Njoroge, spotted him hiding under a tree and shot him as he ran away.
The macabre killing played out in a sweet potato farm as the owner, his wife and daughter watched.
Speaking to the Nation, the woman (name withheld for security and personal reasons) and her daughter said two officers from Nchiru Police Station entered their home in a vehicle as they pursued the rioting students before training their guns on Njoroge
From eye witness accounts, it was a tracking down, and then an extra-judicial. It was premeditated, cold-blooded and executed as if it was a contract: a contract killing. It was point blanc.
MOTIVE?
The motive, why this policeman chased down a flamboyant university student leader to his hide-out, and shot him to death in broad daylight, must be a series of complicated (mental and cultural) constructions which, unraveled, will give us a fearsome but truthful rating of the status of the nation.
Evans Njoroge (aka Kidero) was a popular mobilser. A student Union is like a trade Union. Ever busy with the welfare of its core fraternity. In this case, of Meru University, the quality of education and the fees going with it was the permanent bone of contention. And the Sec-Gen Njoroge was at the heart of articulating those grievances and mobilising his fellow students to take a firm stand to improve things. The management of the institute, personified in the unmoving Vice Chancellor, Japheth Magambo, saw it all as nothing doing, mere trouble-making. In deed Over the past 12 months, the University has been a crisis zone. The latest closure was onf Februari 1 2018.
The background therefore seems to be a classic case of conflict in a stalemate, where unionised activists and their interests are pitted against a conservative profit-addicted management/ownership, and their vested interests of course. To tame dissent emanating from labour, Big capital has always hired gunmen, be they rogue cops, to lay low activists. Killer cops moonlighting as hit-men for the ruling class, or underworld assassins in the employe of organised crime, have always come in handy.
But if this cop lives to be honest to tell his story, we will get his particular pathology if it was not a hit, for cash. For then it would be something personal. You know, stuff like the guy looked like a local womaniser mowing both his daughter and wife, and colleagues grinning humiliatingly at him, what he is gonna do about it when!?
The call such crimes of passion.
This was broad day light. With witnesses. There must have been a blind blanket over the copper's consciousness. Blind fury?drugged high? Promised cash reward? Shame exculpatory vengeance?
Whatever the case, he perpetrated a deed which further darkens the relationship between the police force -utumishi kwa wote, and the constitution which some of us still like to pretend is in action.
Everywhere the police is busy dispersing demonstrating youth with live fire. And weekly there is some such event. -whether it is charcoal related road-blocks of deflated tyres; whether it is road blocks to protest Miguna's illegal deportation; whether it is roadblocks in Nakuru to protest ethnic profiling in Uasin Gishu, or anti-charcoal road vigilantism in Eastern the police descend in combat mode. It looks like a radically intense situation. Militarised. Yet overwhelming firepower on the police side.
The death of young Evans Njoroge, alias Kidero, secretary general of Meru University Students Association, may be the event which brings to an end the era of carefree student demonstrations. It is no longer teargas, truncheons, rawhide whips, butt kicks and an occasional rape here and there at the female halls at the hands of the GSU. It is assassination and targeted killings.
This reality has been chilling brought home to the best thinking section of the youth: University students. It will be interesting to see what strategies they come up with to face the new bloody reality. Power is not bearing fangs. Power is drawing blood. Chilling and ruthless. And openly.
Meru University? It should be renamed (Evans) Njoroge University. And February 27th, Njoroge day. The guy is a martyr.
Meru University Students mill around the body of one of their student leaders on February 27, after he was shot in the head allegedly by a police man in Nchiru
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001271379/police-shoot-kill-meru-university-student-leader-as-protests-turn-ugly
Political leaders, area residents and students condemned the killing.
Students who spoke to The Standard claimed police were targeting the student leaders and student council Chairman Wangila Wabomba, who escaped death by a whisker.
“They were targeting our student leaders and managed to kill our most vocal secretary general. You can see how they followed him miles from where we were holding demos,” said a student.
Students who spoke to The Standard claimed police were targeting the student leaders and student council Chairman Wangila Wabomba, who escaped death by a whisker.
“They were targeting our student leaders and managed to kill our most vocal secretary general. You can see how they followed him miles from where we were holding demos,” said a student.