Friday 27 December 2013

STUDENTS DIE LIKE CHICKEN: SO SAD! VERY SAD! EXTREMELY SAD!-Steve Biko (Organizing Secretary,SONU,UoN)



The university of Nairobi senate has decided to kill her own students, the same people who has made them sit in Gandhi Wing. They recently introduced article 18(f) of the senate rules and regulations that requires that in the medical school, students who fail or get a re-sit in any paper shall repeat a whole
academic year. This is done in total disregard to the ripple effect the students are going to have once it comes to action. The trend started in medical school and no one protested, it has slowly started moving to American wing for the engineers and the School of Engineering dean has even pressurized the campus rep to give him the names of the students who complained, and hopefully to Parklands, Chiromo and finally to Main campus. The saddest part is that, during the proposal of that particular article, students were not represented by the SONU executive officials, whom the senate tends to ignore forgetting that it is the only body which can give crucial directions to anxious students to calm any eruption of riots. I can't say what happened at the engineering wing recently, they can best tell you. Some of the result of this particular move of mental torture and depression targeted at students is the loss of one of our comrades, a fourth year medical students who before his death, is said to have been disturbed at his poor performance in some of the papers he didn't perform well at which then, since no one cared, isolated himself. Sadly there are no counseling services or the people entrusted with that particular service are not up-to-the-task for students who have a lot to cope up with like the medical school, engineering wing, school of law and vet med school and the college of biological and physical science (Chiromo Campus) . The officers entrusted with this particular job are so unwelcoming and mostly absent, this leaves most students disillusioned and resort to deadlier moves, like committing suicide or engaging in drug and substance abuse, as well as deferring their courses
The student leaders who are in authority led by Chairman-Zack Kinuthia, Secretary General Edith Mwirigi, Organizing Secretary Steve Biko (Signior) have always made legal efforts with the top administration to address the plights of students that, the calling is so high, the senate are not in touch with reality. "We are the voice of the comrades, and our key role is to give them information and ensure that the administration understand their plight, We also have a responsibility of ensuring peace and peace in the university, we cannot risk betraying students when they all know that something is astray, the world all over knows that leading intellects ain't easy because they are a lot which can neither be blackmailed or fooled on something they clearly know doesn't suit their interest, LET NOT STUDENTS CONTINUE TO DIE UNDER MISTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES,the resultant effect might not always go well with the university and its environs. The senate will not,shall never or has never been the voice of
students" Said Signior Steve Biko the organizing Secretary-SoNU. The recent alarming death of Students have see the most vibrant SoNU leaders like Signior Steve Biko, Zack Kinuthia and Edith Mwirigi take charge of the situation and even go an extra-mile to e sure things are put back to order. But the recent killing at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION, seemed to be unbearable and the students forces, commonly known as the strongest power on earth after Jesus Christ, had to retaliate but the outcome was one more death of a student of engineering who was shot by a live bullet while rioting at night. "The senate must do something either now, right now, this moment, suddenly and if they can't then they have to immediately do something" Signior Steve Biko.