A first-year male Architecture student claimed that he witnessed a number of officers getting intoxicated and smoking marijuana behind the ADD building.
“We were beaten as we tried to leave the building. I was personally forced to grope my classmate by an officer. When I refused to he beat me up. They stole our money and small electronics such as phones, power banks and hard-disks,” the student narrated.
Another female architecture student narrated how the officers broke into the studio and forced them to line up and raise their hands. She stated that the officers hit them with batons and as they left, they found more officers waiting for them down the stairs where they were each slapped as they passed.
"One of the officers was pulling girls aside and squeezing their buttocks as they passed. I saw two girls who were in front of me being squeezed and then sadly, I was the third. At the building's door, they started hitting us, shouting "rukeni kama chura" (jump like frogs),” the student disclosed.
After jumping through the parking space they told us to get up and run. We got up, ran towards State House road but others were waiting for us.
They told us to lie on our backs on the road. One of the officers held his rungu (baton) and lifted it up between our thighs," another student stated.
The videos of the attacks have been shared widely on social media but the Independent Policing Oversight Authority has dismissed some of them as fake.
On Tuesday, the Authority asked students who were injured during the attacks to record statements after the University was shut down indefinitely.
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