Moi varsity students hold demo, demand withdrawal of new funding model

The Star Kenya

Some Moi University students protested outside the main campus on Monday, demanding that the government scrap the new funding model, which they term discriminative.

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00:00In the first year I got a helipad worth 20,000, now in the second year it is worth 40,000.

00:06If I get a share of 30,000, I will either leave the government or leave my family.

00:13So I say to you, this new bonding model, will it die or will we stand with it today?

00:19Today is today!

00:24Viva comrades, viva!

00:27I want us to give our 10 years, so that we hear from him, from her.

00:32Maybe the government has changed its mindset and disbanded the bandits.

00:36So we don't want this. And Mrs. Dean, this thing is terrible.

00:40My dad is only a teacher and my mom is a business lady.

00:43But do you know what? My sister has been kept in band 5, where those people are getting more than 100,000.

00:51You have laws, and I can even confirm with our administration, some of them are in Mandamano.

00:56Where will this loan come from? Where will this money come from?

00:59Does this government understand our plight? Does this government understand the pain of our parents?

01:04They went for loan when we were in high school, they went for loan when we were in university.

01:08Then this government is now again coming in with a new bonding model.

01:12They either disband the bands or we come for them.

01:15If they cannot come for their comrades, then we comrades, we are coming for them.

01:19It is good that all of us are actually feeling the pain.

01:25There are many ways of expressing our pain and this is one of your ways of expressing your pain

01:33and in solidarity with your sisters and brothers.

01:38I know it has been difficult for the students to accept the new funding model

01:46because of the many things that have happened.

01:49The government has been engaging the student leaders

01:55and we hope by what they said yesterday, there will be a reduction of the funds, I mean bands,

02:06and there will be a solution.

02:10So what I am just asking you is that if the strike has been called off,

02:19a small university, we are standing with our students because our students are our prime clients.

02:30You are the prime client, without your fees the university cannot continue functioning.

02:38And we are saying, since you know I am a Christian by nature and by faith,

02:45and you don't want to know that, it is always good for somebody to declare.

02:51And when somebody asks for forgiveness and time, we usually give them time.

02:59So the government has asked for 30 days.

03:03Those are 30 days.

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