Thursday, 3 November 2016

Fourth  year students in the school of information sciences took to the doors of the office of dean of students in that school to air their grievances over what they termed as low allowances accorded to each during field trips. This came prior to the trip scheduled on Monday October to 12thh of the same month to mombasa
. The angry student argued that the 500 accorded to each is little compared to the high economy of Kenya today. “Dollar imepanda, as such nowhere in Mombasa one can get accommodation, breakfast, lunch, supper and use the same 500 as transport fee to move from one point to another” shouted one of the students. The dean Professor Justus Wamukoya responding on the issue said that he is not in the position to do anything because the process requires a number of the senate members to sit on the issue so that their request is approved. He added , that the same thing had happened in the year 2014 where a tribunal was formed to look at the matter but nothing has been done ever since. Comrade’s power slogan that students apply to communicate to the administration was on the other side of the school of human resource development successful where the allowances in that school were increased. The biggest worry that students in the school of information sciences have right now is, how on earth they will make it in mombasa with a mere 500 shilling when some have never been in Mimbasa or rather do not have relatives there. They would like to know for how long will this go on and the students pay big amounts of money for these field trips but the question seems to remain unanswered. Arguably, someone is sleeping on their job while others pocket the money meant for comrades’ enjoyment

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