{"id":64717,"date":"2024-07-12T12:03:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T12:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/12\/jkuat-students-protest-peers-mysterious-death-post-govt-protests\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T12:03:42","slug":"jkuat-students-protest-peers-mysterious-death-post-govt-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/jkuat-students-protest-peers-mysterious-death-post-govt-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"JKUAT students protest peer\u2019s mysterious death post-govt protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya July 12 \u2013 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) students on Friday protested along the Thika Superhighway following the mysterious death of Denzel Omondi, a third-year student who died after participating in the anti-Finance Bill protests.<\/p>\n<p>Omondi was found dead in a swamp in Juja, two days after storming Parliament on June 25, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The protesting students demanded justice for Omondi, believing he was murdered by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) is investigating Omondi\u2019s death to determine if police were involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIPOA has since requested police documents and it calls upon eyewitness accounts including anyone who can supply verifiable CCTV footage or photographs,\u201d the authority\u2019s Chairperson Ann Makori said.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the National Police Service (NPS) face accusations of involvement in unlawful arrests, abductions, and disappearances of members of the public.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome is under growing pressure to resign due to his role in the incidents, with increasing calls for President William Ruto to dismiss him.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya July 12 \u2013 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) students on Friday protested along the Thika Superhighway following the mysterious death of Denzel Omondi, a third-year student who died after participating in the anti-Finance Bill protests. Omondi was found dead in a swamp in Juja, two days after storming Parliament on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}