/ 15 November 1999

STUDENTS BATTER PRINCIPAL TO DEATH

KENYAN college students battered their principal to death after accusing the institution’s administration of mismanagement, press reports said Thursday. Polycarp Wanyela, the principal of Sangalo Institute of Science and Technology in the western Bungoma district, was attacked by about 100 students late on Tuesday. The students were armed with stones and truncheons. The reports quoted police as saying that they had arrested 11 male and six female students in connection with the murder. The students were reportedly high on a locally distilled gin and dagga. The college had reopened earlier this week two months after the students were sent away for boycotting classes accusing Wanyela of mismanagement.