By Andrew Walyaula
Detectives have launched investigation into the murder of a fourth-year student at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) who was allegedly killed in cold blood at the institution.
An Industrial Chemistry student at JKUAT identified as Joel Juma, a 23-year old who was stabbed two times in the chest by one of the thugs before fleeing into a dark pitch in the 2 am incident.
According to Juma’s girlfriend who is a Law student at Mt Kenya University, Parklands Campus, she had escorted her boyfriend to get some revision materials from his classmates a few blocks away, when the bloodthirsty gang accosted them within the school compound.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) in a statement said that the girlfriend had gone to visit his lover last evening at around 6 pm and found him studying for his examinations. She prepared a meal that they shared together before they retired to bed. However, Juma later woke up and embarked on his books but at around 2 pm, he asked her to escort him to where a classmate stayed to get some reference material that he needed before morning.
“It is while on their way when the thugs attacked them near hotel Lilies, demanding money and mobile phones. Two of them descended on Juma with blows and kicks before stabbing him twice on the left side of his chest, leaving him lying on the ground in a pool of blood. The third assailant manhandled the lady who had not carried any valuable and luckily, left her unscathed,” DCI noted in the statement.
Local guards, who heard the commotion rushed to the scene and together with the heavily shaken girlfriend, helped Juma to a local dispensary where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The authority added that detectives have since established that pockets of a notorious gang, which escaped the ongoing operation to rid Kayole and Dandora of criminals, have found a safe haven in Gachororo, where they are regrouping with the aim of establishing a fiefdom.
“Consequently, a major undercover operation to completely annihilate the gang has been launched in the area. Detectives from the Crime Research & Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) and the Special Service Unit (SSU) have been dispatched to conduct the operation.
