UoN students plan to storm 2 prisons and release prisoners as their friends risk death sentence

Security
in Nairobi is on high alert
following plans by University of
Nairobi Students to storm Langata
and Kamiti Prisons and release
prisoners.
The students are angered by the
court for refusing to release 12 of
their colleagues unless with sh 2
million bond each, saying the
accused can’t raise such money.
The 12 were arrested from the
university’s Lower Kabete Campus
for disrupting the SONU elections
and for planning to commit felony.
However, five more counts have
been added to them, including
robbery with violence and
malicious damage to property,
after several students reported to
the police that they had been
robbed of their phones and laptops
by the accused, who were armed
with crude weapons.
The accused were arrested with
dangerous weapons among them
Glock pistol, knives and pangas
with the intention to commit a
crime.
The 12 now face a death sentence
as far as robbery with violence is
concerned.
“You have to listen to these counts
carefully because the punishment
is death”, said Court Clerk Vincent
Owuor, urging them to be
attentive to the counts relating to
robbery with violence.