What's the Place of Students in Society? Is the Duty of Students to Riot and Burn the Public?

From time to time students demonstrations have been viewed as the sources for moulding and practicing terrorism on the public. It has evolved to be apparent that there's no way that under the blue sky the authorities can give a go a head for a student peaceful demonstration when they are allowed to do so. This comes from the notion that this is usually a mission to burn public property, terrorize innocent Kenyans and kill the animals that come in the sight.
As if this being not enough, a good part of the society have been made to believe that the first training one gets after joining any university is how to riot, mob, and destroy. Where?
I have been lucky to attend matriculation of several universities here in Kenya and if there is anything highly condemned by both student leaders and administration is Rioting. a lot of emphasis is usually put on its demerits and what one can expect if he or she engages in such. But does the public recognize that?

WHO BURNS PUBLIC PROPERTY IN STUDENTS DEMONSTRATIONS?
As time goes, this notion has circulated so far among the Kenyan youths and its undebatable that most non students in the neighboring of academic institutions participate in the riots than students do. Speaking to NTV, Zaack Kinuthia the former SONU chairman was seen as a joker when he said this.
Those who have ever participated or if not participated, keenly observed the procession of some of these demonstrations can attest to this. Learning from the past, it can be remembered that in 2012 when one of the students was brutally murdered at the famous KM in the neighborhood of Kenyatta University, students were granted a permission to demonstrate peacefully within the university premises. This was well done by those who were leading all the way from KM to the gate singing and chanting mourning songs. But after they left the gate silently and satisfied they had mourned their colleague, unknown group of people lit fire along Thika superhighway tinting the name of this world class university.
Similar events have been observed in different institutions just to name few, Masinde muliro of Science and Technology, Kisii University among others.

The public has always come out to engage the students on peaceful riots either in capacity of police or fellow students. This character has circulated and can be observed that same is happening on online platforms where students engage in discussions of matters pertaining their stay in campuses. It's sad when you read a profile of someone without any student status engaging loudly intellectual minds on online platforms and criticizing what he or she understands least.

It's apparent that the society is continuing to create animosity between it and these young intellects who are yet to come out drive this economy. It will be more honorable and ample if the public shall refrain from engaging in what they understand least about students or consult first before engaging them. It's sad to see epitomes of knowledge, benchmarks of intellectualism and icons of prosperity branded all kind of names and titles they deserve least.

Let us give University students their rightful place in society.

WHAT WAS KALONZO’S INTENT IN HIS RESPONSE?

Former Vice President and CORD presidential running mate in the last years general elections Kalonzo Musyoka is in the eye of the storm by the public over comments he made today during a Press conference. Responding to a journalist question on presumed CORD failure, as the official opposition party in the last one year, to suggest solutions to mistakes it blames on the Government, Musyoka instead turned personal which has been seen as a tribal stand.
He chose to interrogate the journalist’s ethnicity by his name, derisively dismissing his question as inspired by his tribe and therefore, his assumed political leanings based on last elections voting blocks, famously “strongholds”. In Kalonzo’s words, the journalist’s name “betrays it all.” To his mindset, the name ‘Muriithi’ is predominant in Central Kenya, a region whose followers overwhelmingly voted for Jubilee coalition that is currently in power, Cord’s main rival.
This thinking is regrettably parochial. Coming from someone with declared ambition to be the country’s president, it betrays a shocking intolerance to members of community constituting part of the very same citizens Musyoka would wish to lead come 2017 or any other general election in the near future. In any case, the stereotype behind it is also fallacious. It assumes members of a community belong by default to obvious political grouping which is not the case to an intellectual analyst. There is plenty of evidence that there are many Kenyans who have challenged this political herd mentality, including prominent members of Musyoka’s Cord coalition.
However, it should also be noted that as much as we may interpret this as a tribal sentiment, our backgrounds and understanding of our local names vary. Most of local names that we Africans get have a unique meaning which in most cases is usually only known to the members of such a locality. Our we send our sentiments and views, it’s therefore worth that we listen keenly what was Kalonzo’s intent in his message to the journalist before giving our very own interpretation.