A section of University students are decrying hardships in the university after the government delayed disbursing the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) funds.
The students who usually rely on the funds to sustain their stay have given the government a seven-day ultimatum to either release the funds or they will protest from Friday.
The students drawn from the University of Nairobi have revealed that they are struggling to return to school while those already enrolled are finding it difficult to sustain themselves. "We want to issue a strong ultimatum to the government, it is their mandate to offer us HELB, by Friday, if there will be no HELB disbursement, we will occupy those offices and compel those leaders to give us the funds," Rocha Madzayo, the President of UoN student body, said.
The University of Nairobi (UoN) Kikuyu Campus Photo UoN The confusion and delay in the disbursement came in the wake of the ruling by the court which declared the new university funding model unconstitutional.
