Businesses came to a standstill in Kakamega town as youths marched through the streets following the death of a Sigalagala National Polytechnic student who was killed during anti-fuel price protests.
Transport operations along the Kakamega–Kisumu Highway were also paralysed as hundreds of angry youths and students from Sigalagala National Polytechnic took to the streets to protest the death of 22-year-old engineering student Derrick Machanja.
The youths held a procession with the body of the deceased after retrieving it from his rural home in Shinyalu ahead of the burial.
The body had reportedly been moved from the Kakamega County Mortuary at about 2 a.m. under heavy security. However, students traced it and brought it back to town.
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The deceased was a part-time tuk-tuk operator who worked tirelessly to raise school fees, having been brought up by a single mother facing financial challenges.
By Hilda Atika
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