KENYAN STUDENTS GO ON RAMPAGE

SEVERAL hundred Kenya Polytechnic students went on the rampage in Nairobi on Tuesday in protest against examinations set by the Kenya National Examinations Council. The students said they wanted internal exams set by their own lecturers and not those of the KNEC. Running battles ensued with the police, with students stoning passing vehicles and lighting bonfires along the busy Haile Selassie avenue next to the main City Square Post Office. The police charged the students with batons and clubs and fired tear gas up to the main stairs of the post office building block next to the polytechnic campus alongside the avenue.