Things seem to get thicker for Rongo University College students, their academic boots hung on top of the roof following the highly intense elections, that were marred with emotions, heavy propaganda, one that saw the two largest groups within the campus forge a coalition of the willing, “the winning coalition” the say, with their coined Luo clarion tag “okwasechi”, the students went to one of the elections of its kind in Rongo University College history. Opponents were threatened and intimidated, some had to run away for their dear lives.
The elections saw majority of those elected come from the above said coalition, a coalition that boasted of tyranny of numbers at its inception. The pain, joy and hatred of the national politics took center stage where some groups felt sidelined in the national politics, another felt frustrated by the ruling elite while the last group felt there was no need to replicate the national politics in campus and asked for a show of political maturity.
The fierce contest saw one Mr. Paul Frank clinch the top seat, deputized by Mr. Alila while Mr. Ronald Kiprui won the Secretary Generals’ seat. The Luo-Kalenjin coalition only lost one seat, Entertainment seat that went to Robby Njeru.Claims of vote rigging after the release of the final results escalated the tension among the students, some of which feared for their security. In one of the student’sFacebook group, WHISPERS, the “winning” team told their “loosing” counterpart’s to accept the results and Move on as they have always been told in the National politics and asked those aggrieved to use the right channel to air their grievances and challenge the election outcome.
What followed thereafter was smoke from one of the students Hostels-Lower Nyayo was on fire, huge smoke could be seen coming from the hostels at 8.00 am. The morning incident prompted the administration to call in the police to re-enforce security as the administration headed for an impromptu council meeting that saw the closure of the university college paving the way for investigations into the matter.
Some of the aggrieved students then went to the Ministry of Education headquarters where they had a meeting with CS Education-Prof.Kaimenyi, they presented their grievances and also wrote a letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Education, the letter was also copied to the PS Education and the Commission for Higher Education.
Meanwhile, the students remain out of session awaiting further direction from the university College Board on the way forward, the damage charges and when to resume shall be communicated later.
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