The Kenyan Council of Legal Education has ruled out law programmes in three more universities.
The council which ordered Moi University School of Law to close down on Monday, has also halted admission of more students into University of Nairobi's Kisumu and Mombasa campuses.
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Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University's accreditation application was also turned down by the council, which cited that the said universities had not satisfied set requirements including adequate teaching facilities.
In a public notice by the Legal body, Catholic University was also found unfit to train lawyers and demanded them to show a closure plan before the year ended.
“Any institution purporting to provide legal education which is not here-under mentioned has no legal standing and is therefore not authorized to offer legal education,” read the notice undersigned by the Council's boss Prof Kulundu Bitonye.
Among the institutions allowed to proceed with their law programmes are Kenyatta University, University of Nairobi Parklands Campus and Strathmore University.
Recently, Attorney General Prof Githu Muigai criticized the increase in parallel degree arrangements calling them money making programmes producing half baked graduates.
However, alumni from the School of Law at Moi University have criticized the move to close the faculty maintaining that the institution had complied and even threatened to take further action if the closure order is not lifted.
Engineering Board of Kenya also recently questioned some of the courses being offered in most Universities terming them as sub-standard.
The board demanded the closure of Egerton University engineering faculty due to unresolved dispute between the institution and the regulator with regards to set standards for provision of engineering courses.
The directive now casts a cloud of uncertainity on the students already pursuing Law in the campuses listed to stop offering the training.
