State, students could have spared city ugly scenes

Kenya: While issuing a strike threat to protest an increase in university fees, student leaders warned motorists to keep off certain key roads within Nairobi and even had the audacity to ask motorists to leave their vehicles at home.

Predictably, students from the University of Nairobi poured into city streets to hold what they called a peaceful demonstration. Their counterparts from the Technical University of Kenya stoned vehicles along Haile Selasie Avenue, causing panic and commotion. The city was emptied of traders and buyers.