Police probe murder of 22-year-old university student
By Judy Jerono
Police in Kisumu are probing the killing of a 22-year-old Maseno University student whose body was found in a thicket.
A third-year student in the School of Computing and Informatics at Maseno University was found murdered and his body ditched in a thicket near the institution.
It is said that James Omollo was attacked by unknown gang while heading to their hostel with his friends after a night out at a local club where his friends managed to escape the attack.
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File image of a police crime scene tape. |photo| Courtesy|[/caption]
In the morning his friends together with the institution’s management realized Omollo was missing, that is when they started locating him through his mobile phone only to be found dead in a thicket with severe injuries on the head.
Confirmed the incident, the Kisumu police commander Alphose Peter said investigations into the matter have already begun and that the culprits will be brought to book.
His body has been transferred to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Mortuary awaiting postmortem.
Cases of murder and suicides have been reported to be on the rise among the University students in the country, from love triangles, drugs, to living dangerously.
Experts have agreed that teen university students are lacking “primary self-preservation skills”.
“It is the hallmark of poor adjustment,”. They said the poor adjustment is manifested in diminished self-worth, zero sense of environmental mastery and poor social skills, such that they simply cannot cope with others.
The experts classify young people in between 18-25 years’ age group as “emerging adults” who need extra attention.
The said that by law, they are adults. But by nature, they are still children who are left on their own adding that the teens are becoming more vulnerable to drugs, gambling, pornography and illicit sex, living lonely lives.
Parents who were absent or too busy to raise their children, or who were away most of the time are blamed.
“The environment in which some of the students grew up did little to prepare them for the perils of university life and that they were left to learn life skills on their own,” says Prof Lukoye Atwoli, a consultant psychiatrist and lecturer at Moi University’s School of Medicine. “They learnt life skills from peers, television and the househelp”.
He further said that the “The current University students are different from those who attended university 20 years ago. These ones are just not prepared for university life,” says Atwoli.
“University youth are wearing shoes that don’t fit them, they are falling into pressures to please their friends and could commit crimes ‘just to fit in’,”
Most of the students have been forced to rent affordable houses outside the school where some of them live in crime-infested neighborhoods due to the expansion of university education where most institutions have been having problems accommodating all the students admitted.
The experts say that the University teens are not only unable to acknowledge their own emotions but also to respect the emotions of others. “They do not know how to take rejection because they have been brought up to get whatever they want”.
File image of a police crime scene tape. |photo| Courtesy|[/caption]
In the morning his friends together with the institution’s management realized Omollo was missing, that is when they started locating him through his mobile phone only to be found dead in a thicket with severe injuries on the head.
Confirmed the incident, the Kisumu police commander Alphose Peter said investigations into the matter have already begun and that the culprits will be brought to book.
His body has been transferred to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Mortuary awaiting postmortem.
Cases of murder and suicides have been reported to be on the rise among the University students in the country, from love triangles, drugs, to living dangerously.
Experts have agreed that teen university students are lacking “primary self-preservation skills”.
“It is the hallmark of poor adjustment,”. They said the poor adjustment is manifested in diminished self-worth, zero sense of environmental mastery and poor social skills, such that they simply cannot cope with others.
The experts classify young people in between 18-25 years’ age group as “emerging adults” who need extra attention.
The said that by law, they are adults. But by nature, they are still children who are left on their own adding that the teens are becoming more vulnerable to drugs, gambling, pornography and illicit sex, living lonely lives.
Parents who were absent or too busy to raise their children, or who were away most of the time are blamed.
“The environment in which some of the students grew up did little to prepare them for the perils of university life and that they were left to learn life skills on their own,” says Prof Lukoye Atwoli, a consultant psychiatrist and lecturer at Moi University’s School of Medicine. “They learnt life skills from peers, television and the househelp”.
He further said that the “The current University students are different from those who attended university 20 years ago. These ones are just not prepared for university life,” says Atwoli.
“University youth are wearing shoes that don’t fit them, they are falling into pressures to please their friends and could commit crimes ‘just to fit in’,”
Most of the students have been forced to rent affordable houses outside the school where some of them live in crime-infested neighborhoods due to the expansion of university education where most institutions have been having problems accommodating all the students admitted.
The experts say that the University teens are not only unable to acknowledge their own emotions but also to respect the emotions of others. “They do not know how to take rejection because they have been brought up to get whatever they want”. What's Your Reaction?
