Students protest as Moi University dons skip classes
Students from Moi University School of Law, Annex Campus, demonstrate on the Eldoret-Nakuru highway, where they blocked the road for more than two hours on September 29, 2014. They said they had not been taught for more than a month. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA |
What you need to know:
- The students said that learning had not taken place since the first semester started four weeks ago.
- The Nation learnt that the lecturers want their salaries reviewed.
University students on Monday barricaded the Eldoret-Nakuru highway in protest over delayed learning.
The university subsequently shut down Moi University’s School of Law.
The students said that learning had not taken place since the first semester started four weeks ago.
“Our parents have paid dearly for us to learn, yet our lecturers have been keeping away from class ever since we started the semester,” Moi University Students Organisation (Muso) vice-chairman Eddie Waswa said.
He said efforts to reach the lecturers regarding the stalemate were unsuccessful.
The Nation learnt that the lecturers want their salaries reviewed.
PROBLEM WITH SALARIES
“Only a few lecturers have opened up to say they had problems with their salaries since last year and we are forced to bear the mess,” Mr Waswa said.
In a communication to the students on Monday, the deputy vice-chancellor in charge of academics, research and extension, Prof B. E. L. Wishitemi said the university had been closed indefinitely.
“Following the failure by lecturers of the School of Law to provide teaching services for the last four weeks, it has been decided that the School of Law be closed immediately until further notice,” he said.
“All the students are therefore advised to clear from the university premises with immediate effect.”
Muso secretary-general Sajid Al-Beity said the final communication should have been done early so that students who lived far from the campus could get home in time.
