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Kisii leaders protest over college status

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Published on Thursday, 12 June 2008 18:18

Some Kisii leaders Wednesday protested against what they termed as delay in the actualisation of Kisii University College. They noted that the formation of the university council had been unnecessarily delayed. Led by Kisii mayor Sam Nyangeso, they said that since President Mwai Kibaki elevated the university college in October last year, no progress had been made.

“Chuka and Pwani appear to be moving towards actualisation while Kisii seems to be stagnating or even regressing,” Mr Nyangeso told journalists in his parlour. The mayor noted that the institution became a university college at the same time with Maseno, which was now a full-fledged university.

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“Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology was Western College of Science and Technology until 2001 when it became a university college. But within three years it became a full-fledged university,” he added.

Mr Nyangeso blamed the predicament facing Kisii to lack of political drive and enthusiasm both locally and at the national level. He said that there was a systematic withdrawal of popular market driven degree courses from Kisii to the other campuses of Egerton University.

Among the programmes offered at the college are Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Science in Library and Information Studies. The mayor also said that whenever advertisements for intake into degree programmes offered by Egerton are placed in newspapers, Kisii was never mentioned.  An official at the college told the Nation that there were plans to introduce more courses in the university’s offerings.