Chuka Decides

By Edward Okana and David Kimani ( Varsity Post)


Chuka university college(CUC) on Friday,  Feb 10^th , 2012, went to the polls and elected a new Chuka university college students' association (CUSA) chairman in the closely contested elections that saw Omullo Augo Joseph garner 532 votes against his arch rival Kirimi James Chapati's 512 which were held for the better part of the day at the pavilion polling station.

After the announcement of the results by the presiding officer in charge of the one day polling, Dr. Waita, ululations and celebrations rented the air with comrades from all tribal divides standing together to congratulate one another. It was clear in the eyes of many scores of people that at last the change they were yearning for had come, and what remains to be seen is change itself. During his winning address, Augo continued to preach peace almost the students,"let us embrace one another because there are no enemies in politics." He went on to sing a song of victory dubbed 'mageuzi pap'.

In a quick rejoinder, his running mate, Wairimu Rosemary, together with the treasurer elect, Gideon Osamong joined hands in thanking their voters and went ahead to tell them that the prices of sukuma wiki among other short term implementable promises will be tackled with speed.

In other categories the winners were Joyce Rugendo who was elected the director of students' welfare, Miriam Wamaitha the organizing secretary, Peter Mburu the secretary general and Kelvin Munene went away with the director of academic affairs position.

With the beehive of activities at the polling station, the election process went ahead peacefully at a closer look by the security personnel, the media crew and the student's fraternity.

In another twist of events, police officers from Chuka police station disrupted students' celebrations by throwing teargas canisters in the air to scare them away. It was not clear who invited the officers and every security personnel based at the university denied any link with them. This uncalled for behavior by the uninvited guests shook cans of worms in students' stomachs as they shouted back after the police had gone that they were only exercising their democratic rights.