A group of agitated university students have threatened to camp outside President Uhuru Kenyatta's Harambee office if the lecturers' strike does not come to an end by this week.
Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Moi University Nairobi campus chairman Edwin Kegoli stated that their right to education was being violated following the strike which is on its 42nd day.
"From Tuesday next week, we will camp on Harambee Avenue so that whenever the President comes in the morning and leaves in the evening, he will see how frustrated students are," Kegoli said.
The students complained that the industrial action was even more painful for students on private programmes, who pay huge sums of money.
"We are concerned government officials have not tried hard enough to negotiate with the lecturers. Students on private programmes are losing the most because they are costly," Moi University student Paul Abok was quoted by a local daily.
Kegoli added that as students they had sent a petition to Members of Parliament (MP) urging them to intervene in the crisis.
It is our humble prayer the National Assembly will understand the continuation of the lecturers’ strike limits students from advancing.
The dons downed their tools in January to push the Government to implement the 2013-2017 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
Meanwhile, tension is high in public universities after Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i issued tough orders restricting the payment of over 9000 lecturers, currently on strike.
In a letter dated March 3, the CS ordered the withholding of salaries from February when the lecturers downed their tools.
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