A mass brawl broke out in a learning institution in the Coastal region after a student allegedly ripped off a girl’s headscarf sparking violence which could be described as the World War III.Shocking footage shows a number of students attacking each other, throwing punches, slaps and pushing each other against the walls as others rush away from the scene.

Ann Mvurya being sworn in after winning elections.

Now the current chairperson of the University of Nairobi Students Association, Ann Mvurya has been on the political scene for two years, having served as the head of secretariat for the UON students union. According to her, voting for students leaders through delegates has helped to curb hooliganism. Monitoring of voting is now easy,the process is fair than it had been.

The elections also had its own challenges like financing the campaign and convincing students that she would keep her promises. Unlike before, when every candidate would run an individual campaign, the new system required one to have a team of seven people.

Ms Mvurya claimed to be a self made politician and thrushed rumors that she was financed by people outside the University. Her win however elicited mixed reactions with some students engaging in an online smear campaign and discrediting her ability to lead.

Mvurya claimed that University politics had been dominated by hooliganism for years and to overcome that, she had to be tough and at the same time listen to students. Her main challenges according to her was financing her campaign and convincing students that she would keep her promises.

David Ndii addressing a crowd outside TUM.

Activists led by constitutional lawyer Yash Ghai and Economist David Ndii were on Saturday, 12/11/2019 bared from accessing TUM where they were to speak about matters including a dwindling economy that has been linked to the government move to compel importers to haul their cargos to Nairobi using the Standard gauge railway. Police manned the gates of the University to keep them from entering the University.

The team was blocked from entering TUM where they were to speak about regional issues. The Activists resolved to hold a peaceful demonstration outside the University against the government move. The group accused the government of frustrating civil societies to keep them from criticizing it.

Officials from Muslim for Human Rights (MUHURI) and who were the organizers said that they were asked to call off the meeting for security purposes. Ndii however went ahead with his address outside the institution where he shed light on the debt crisis in the country.

He also dismissed the government idea to extend the SGR stating that it was a moop project and a total waste to the taxpayers money. “We as the taxpayers of Kenya are paying for a project that is of low benefits to the common mwananchi”. The determined group however, decided to organize another event in the near future.

For those fresh out of high school, Campus life is the ultimate utopia and the mother of everything you have ever wished to do but lacked the space of doing it. A chance to finally be free from the suffocating, iron grip your parents maintain at all times. Finally, one gains the freedom to be independent and hang out as they wish to indulge in earthly pleasures. This lifestyle comes at a price that is often too high for some to pay.

Smoke a little weed here, snort a bit of cocaine there and the next thing you know you are hooked to the lifestyle and more often than not struggling to keep up financially. There are two categories of drug users, the ballers and the regulars. Lean, a mixture of codeine syrup often mixed up with a soft drink of choice for many in the latter that want to have a good high on the budget.

Cases of University students committing suicide and engaging in crime are on the rise as most are pressed for cash to keep up with the lifestyle. Broke and desperate, most students begin to sink into the murky waters of mass debt before falling into depression. In a case of alleged drunk driving, a student was involved in a grizzly road accident while returning to school with his colleagues. According to the source in the varsity, they were able to clear any drugs with them before the cops arrived at the scene.

More so, drug peddlers are beginning to use sex as a form of payment from ladies who cannot pay hard cash. So for fresh looking University lads and lasses who aspire to stay “bad and boujee” ; it might not be a smooth ride after all as many try hard to keep up with the seemingly cool lifestyle only to fall into trap of irreversible vices and addiction.

Though a number of Universities have guards who frisk students supposedly to check for drugs as they enter the institution’s compound, the guards are easily compromised by the drug dealing students. Some even brag to fellow students that they are untouchable within the school premises, enticing even more students into helping them grow the business.

Students at the Technical University of Mombasa (TUM) have called off their planned demonstrations.This comes after the University of Nairobi (UoN) was on Tuesday closed indefinitely.TUM students had on Tuesday said they will take to the streets in solidarity with their comrades at UoN following the police brutality meted on students at the institution last week.Confirming the postponement of the protests on Wednesday, TUM president Daniel Otieno said there are various issues that have forced them to take the action.According to The Star, the students have raised concern over threats from the county’s security organs.“A number of things have come up and forced us to call off the protest. We are now meeting officials…we shall update you on our next move. Some of my officials and I have been called and asked to stop the protest. We know these are threats that cannot be taken lightly. We do not want to see our people injured,” said Otieno, as quoted by the daily.The University of Nairobi Senate opted to close the institution after the students held demonstrations to protest the arrest Embakasi East MP Babu Owino, a former student leader.According to The Star, at least 27 students sustained injuries after police officers invaded the institution to disperse protestors.Report Story

• 

Thank you for reading my article! You have contributed to my success as a writer. The articles you choose to read on Xavier Rosa blogs help shape the content we offer.

-Xavier Rosa

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

• Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
• Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

• Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
• What topics do you think you’ll write about?
• Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
• If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.