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Fifty first year students arrested for rioting, spend night in cold cell

They were protesting the murder of their colleague on Friday night [Courtesy]

First Year students of Rift Valley Technical Training Institute (RVTTI) received a rude welcome to college after they spent Monday night in police cells for allegedly participating in a riot.

The more than fifty students were arrested by officers from Eldoret East Police Station during a demonstration to protest the murder of their colleague on Friday night.

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