Following a directive by university authorities to increase tuition fees, students have threatened to stage demonstrations.
Student leaders from various universities declared that on Monday next week, they would hold countrywide demonstrations to protest the raising of fees from Sh16,000 to Sh48,000.
This is in addition to last week’s directive by Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed to have Higher Education Loans Board (Helb) loan defaulters arrested and prosecuted.
The proposal to increase fees was arrived at during a meeting by vice-chancellors from public universities, who claimed that expenses had gone up and more money was needed to effectively run the colleges.
The students, who insisted on addressing the press in the middle of the road, caused a traffic snarl up on Nairobi’s University Way.
“The streets will be impassable on Monday if she (Ms Amina Mohamed) does not listen to us,” Eric Ochola, a student from the South Eastern Kenya University said.