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<\/div>\nJoel Juma, slain Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) student<\/strong> [Fidelis Kabunyi, Standard]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Seven people have been arrested in connection with the death of Joel Juma, a fourth-year student at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT).\n<\/p>\n The 23-year-old Bachelor of Science (Industrial Chemistry) student was stabbed twice in the chest during a night attack at Juja, Kiambu County, on Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n The attackers also escaped with Juma\u2019s mobile phone and other valuables. <\/p>\n Juma\u2019s female friend, a law student at the Mt Kenya University, Parklands Campus, told police she had escorted her boyfriend to collect revision materials from his classmates a few blocks away, when the gang accosted them. \n<\/p>\n She said two of them descended on Juma with blows and kicks before stabbing him twice on the left side of his chest, leaving him lying on the ground. <\/p>\n Night guards who heard the commotion rushed to the scene and took Juma to a local dispensary where he was pronounced dead on arrival.\n<\/p>\n Juja Directorate of Criminal Investigations Officer (DCIO) Richard Mwaura said out of the seven suspects, two are key and are likely to be charged with murder.\n<\/p>\n The murder has elicited fury and among students who now want police to investigate and arrest the killers. <\/p>\n Led by Lyra Wanjiku, a statistics and commerce student, the students protested rising insecurity in Juja that has been hampering their learning activities.\n<\/p>\n Student president Mark Thiong\u2019o said many students have suffered injuries and lost valuable items in the hands of the notorious gang.\n<\/p>\n He said although they have been holding meetings with the Juja security team, criminal incidents have escalated due to reduced police patrols. \n<\/p>\n Police are now pursuing the gang, which they said has regrouped in Gachororo. <\/p>\n \nShare this story<\/b>\n<\/p>\n Joel Juma, slain Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) student [Fidelis Kabunyi, Standard] Seven people have been arrested in connection with the death of Joel Juma, a fourth-year student at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). The 23-year-old Bachelor of Science (Industrial Chemistry) student was stabbed twice in the chest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}KEEP READING<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n
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