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Meru University student leader Evans Njoroge was executed by police on Tuesday February 27th 2018. The deceased has been buried on Thursday March 8th.

Police shot dead Evans Njoroge in sweet potato farm during students demonstration. The protest was organized against the varsity administration for hiking fees.

Family, friends and relatives gathered at Evan’s Longonot home in Naivasha to bid him the final goodbye. The family’s pain is heightened by the fact that no action has been taken against Evan’s killer.

Amnesty International

Human Rights group Amnesty International has called for the arrest and prosecution of the killer cop who shot Evans. Meanwhile Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed publicly apologized to the family and students.

The Education CS also terminated the service of the Vice Chancellor Japheth Magambo as demanded by the student movement.

 

The life of Evans Njoroge was cut short when police executed him on Tuesday February 27th. The Meru University student leader was advocating for fee reduction when he met his end.

Students at Meru University of Science and Technology on Tuesday took to the streets to demand reduction of school fees by Kes 8,500 and improvement of the versity’s infrastructure.

Police were called in to disperse the protesting students and they used live bullets to do so. Evans Njoroge was killed as a police officer pursued him.

Shot in close range

Several witnesses say the police officer who shot Evans aimed to kill. The student leader died instantly after he was shot in the head at close range.

“The students came running and some entered through our main gate before disappearing into the farm. The police officer who was driving the vehicle came out and demanded to know where the students were. It is then that they spotted one of them (Njoroge) hiding under a tree. He shot at him as he was trying to run away,” a witness told Daily Nation.

The killer police officer is well-known to the locals. The witness further reveals the the policeman returned to the vehicle and drove off after killing Evans.

Evans’ lifeless body lay in the potato farm until 5pm when a contingent of police overpowered protesting students and locals and took it away to Miathene Sub County Hospital mortuary.