Chaos rock Kitale National Polytechnic as students strike over death of colleague.

There was drama in Kitale on Monday after Kitale National Polytechnic students forcefully picked up a colleague’s body from a mortuary and engaged bodaboda riders in running battles to protest his death.

Eddy Ptenda, who joined the college in May, was knocked down by a motorcyclist in the area and rushed to Kitale County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Hundreds of institution students took to the streets of the town to protest his death and engaged in runs with the Bodaboda operator’s before the police came in to calm down the situation.

The rowdy students had stormed into the hospital’s mortuary and forcefully took away the man’s body before parading it on the busy Kitale-Kapenguria highway.

It took the intervention of student leaders to stop the protesting students from carrying the body on a trolley to the Kitale Police Station to express their anger. They later returned the body to the morgue after about two hours.

Drama ensued when the students became rowdy and started destroying property on the streets and stealing clothes and other items in shops while protesting.