POLICE WERE FORCED TO RETALIATE

 On the eve of the Good Friday, a third year student succumbed under unclear circumstances. Stories of different versions as to the cause of his death emerged. Some said he fought a colleague after a drinking spree at F2. Others said it had to do with a love triangle. Still, another version was that he was stabbed by an unknown assailant on his way to his room.

The following day, students went berserk destroying anything in their wake including demolishing the University's gates and breaking panes inside the Administration and Senate building.
What was more startling was the refusal by irate students to release the body of the deceased so that it could be taken to the morgue. This was lack of respect for the fallen comrade. Pushing the corpse on a hospital bed while only covered by the University flag under the hot sun and marching with it to Kesses on foot is even unspeakable.
The death was attributed to the state of campus security. The demonstration was said to be a peaceful one. Unless otherwise, the meaning of peace here was fallacious. The state of security on campus had nothing to do with the fences, the hotels at new stage and other properties that were destroyed.
Comrades do shoot and when the arrow has left the bow, they begin to aim. We never stop to think of consequences such as; what if the University is shut indefinitely? What if the administration decide that we pay for the damages however small? What if someone is appears before the senate and is suspended on the same? For the fine, it is our parents who bear the burden. When one is before the disciplinary committee as an individual, he trembles as if he would die the next minute and begs for a pardon claiming it was the work of the devil.
Comrades normally fight for the right cause but in a very wrong manner. How could students break into the hotels, take out the furniture and other wares; breaking some while throwing the rest carelessly and still call it a peaceful demonstration?
The march to Kesses disrupted the social peace and order of the community. The police were provoked to come out and restore the peace and order. If it were really a peaceful march, the police would not have used tear gas.
The use of bullets by the police-rubber or live is highly condemned. However, the question which must be asked at this point is what made the police to use bullets. Students cause havoc and they expect the police to sit back, watch and get entertained. The police are stoned and expected to smile.
Innocent comrades were arrested in the process and spent the night in police cell while those who really incited comrades to leave campus premises and cause havoc spend the night warm. Instead of getting a means to transport the body to the morgue, you incited comrades to walk on foot and take the body to the mortuary: that a comrade is always right.
The injuries and arrests would not have taken place if at all comrades had not left campus to go and disturb peace and order outside. A peaceful march would have been better. The riot only added more grief to what was already there.