8 Demands That Led to Closure of Moi University

A view of Moi University

Moi University Eldoret administration did not waste time in taking action against its students following demonstrations held at the school on Friday.

In a memo from the Vice chancellor, Prof I. M. Kimengi,  students were ordered to vacate the campus immediately after it was closed indefinitely.

The learners had marched along the highway next to the institution shouting and chanting in protest to the management of the institution.

The student body, Moi University Students Organisation (MUSO), had on Wednesday issued a memo of a planned peaceful protest.

According to MUSO, they had resorted to the means due to the failure by the university to address matters affecting the students.

 

The demands include:

  1. Completion of school fees and signing of nominal roll to be extended to the last week examination.
  2. Supplementary examination fee is retained at Ksh 400.
  3. The school portal is redesigned.
  4. The culture of preparing meals to be maintained until a satisfactory, affordable and practical alternative are adopted.
  5. Students are allowed to re-sit their supplementary examinations without having to repeat the whole year.
  6. The Chief security must go.
  7. Revision of recently inflated fee structure.
  8. Hiring of enough lecturers to satisfy various courses within the university.
Moi University Students demands

The school’s VC Dr. J.S Ayieko, however, termed the call to arms illegal.

Ayieko reiterated that the matters brought forward by the students were being handled by his team.

The closure of the popular university comes days after another public institution was shut down.

On Tuesday, Kenyatta University was closed indefinitely after students went on a rampage that paralysed activities at the facility.

The rowdy youth had engaged police in running battles on Monday that led to a traffic snarl up along Thika Road.

Through their student leader Joshua Ayika, the angry student were calling for the resignation of the VC Prof. Paul K. Wainaina over a case of historical injustices.

The enraged learners highlighted that the administration had hiked the graduation fee which was initially Ksh 3500 to Ksh 6000.

Kenyatta University

Ayika had further declared that the students would remain out of the institution utill Wainaina addressed them and gave them a way forward to their pleas.

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