University students have given the government a four day ultimatum to end the ongoing teachers and doctors’ strike failure to which they will call a for a countrywide mass action.
University of Nairobi student leader Paul Ongili alias Babu Owino said that parents had paid school fees for the students to be taught.
“The students are stranded in school yet they have paid school fees we are going to join the lecturers in ensuring that their problem is addressed,” he said.
He wondered why leaders would be busy asking Kenyans to register as voters instead of addressing the strikes first.
Owino also said that time had come for the government to revise the HELB loans it gives students, adding that the maximum of Sh40,000 was 'too insignificant'.
“The money that remains is so little and cannot sustain students for 12 months. These figures should be revised without hesitation,” added Owino.
This comes barely days after university student leaders in the coast said that they would call for mass action if the government remained tight lipped even as the strikes affected Kenyans.
The lecturers strike kicked off last week after they defied a court order that wanted them to negotiate with the salaries and remuneration commission.