Kenya Police is disturbed by the hooliganism exhibited by a small section of students of Nairobi University who engaged in looting, stoning of motorists and blocking of traffic on Uhuru Highway and University Way. These were criminal acts conducted under the guise of demonstration organized by civil society.

It has also come to our notice that the students’ procession was hijacked by criminal elements who persistently engaged in lawless acts in a bid to provoke police to disperse the procession. This was a deliberate effort to cause chaos and create an opportunity to loot, cause malicious damage to property and commit other criminal offences.

Kenya Police is reviewing footages of looters and other criminal acts in order to identify the perpetrators and prosecute them in a court of law.

Once more Kenya Police asserts it’s commitment to protect the democratic right of citizens to express themselves and to this end police officers provided security and mounted police escorts to the students through out their preferred route in today’s procession.

The Commissioner of Police takes this early opportunity to congratulate the leadership of SONU and all those students who demonstrated peacefully.

For: Commissioner of Police.

March 10th, 2009.