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Shut Down Kisii Campus? No way, warn MPs
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 July 2007 03:09
Local leaders said that the suggestion by Egerton Vice-Chancellor Ezra Maritim was against a recent agreement between Kisii MPs and Education minister George Saitoti.
Prof Maritim said at the campus on Friday that Egerton University was considering the status of the campus because it was becoming expensive to maintain.
He added that its 300 students could be accommodated comfortably at the Njoro main campus.
He lamented the poor condition of the road leading to the campus from the Kisii-Kilgoris main road and said the institution had not been developed since it was elevated from a diploma teacher training college 11 years ago.
Yesterday, the leaders blamed Prof Maritim and the university administration for failing to prepare a development budget for the campus.
They said the vice-chancellor was championing a position taken by the former Kanu government that the Kisii campus could not be elevated because of the political stand taken by the community against it.
In press statement read by Nyaribari Masaba MP Hezron Manduku, the leaders said their meeting with Prof Saitoti agreed that the process to elevate the campus to a constituent college starts. Dr Manduku said the university had not requested money for development in its funding proposal to the ministry. Last week, Kisii campus students besieged Prof Maritim, accusing him of discriminating against the institution when distributing learning aids.
