University of Nairobi students are counting losses after a fire burnt down hostels.
The wooden hostel named Soweto caught fire on Wednesday and it was attributed to an electric fault.
A statement from Director, Corporate Affairs read: "At 12.30 pm, a fire broke out at UON Nairobi upper Kabete Campus' Soweto hostels."
The statement further added: "There are no casualties. 132 male students property has been destroyed. UoN management is in control of the situation. The cause of the fire is not yet known."
According to UON Student Association chairperson Anthony Manyara, all the Upper Kabete campus students were safely evacuated without any injuries.
Manyara called on the government to include the university in its ambitious housing programme under the Big Four initiative.
The Student Association Chair maintained that most of the accommodation buildings in the campus can only qualify for historic sites.
“We have a serious housing problem in all the universities and more so here,” Manyara stated.
This is not the first time that property of unknown value belonging to students in the institution was destroyed by fire.
In 2015 fire started in a room on the third floor of Hall 12 after an electrical malfunction suspected to have been caused by a power surge.
Here is the video:
VIDEO: University of Nairobi hostel goes up in flames pic.twitter.com/yAHqGF9Zx3
— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) May 30, 2018
