Erick Jangama,Secretary General-SONU
University of Nairobi students may soon be voting online through the student portal if new proposals aimed at stopping hooligans and goons running amok the university are anything to go by.
The proposal which was put forward yesterday in a meeting at the University of Nairobi Central Catering Unit(CCU) intends to propose measures to bring to a halt incidents where students have been reported to be terrorized by a cartel of hooligans said to be on the rampage in the university.
However, a section of students lead by SONU chairman Babu Owino walked out of the meeting in protest faulting the administration for pushing proposals down the throats in a meeting that was expected to take into account the views the students.The students particularly expressed concerns with a proposal to have them vote online in future elections saying that such a move was meant to facilitate rigging elections.
On his part, the Secretary General of SONU Erick Jangama said that there was a need for consultation with the students fraternity in order to come up with a work plan of weeding out hooligans in the institution.Jangama further said that there is need to correct the impression that the university is experiencing some sort of crisis saying that that was farfetched and a misplaced idea by those who want to tarnish the good name of the University of Nairobi.
Among other recommendations made by the university’s administration to help boast security in halls of residents and deal with hooliganism include reverting the management of mini-shops otherwise known as tuck shops to the university administration.
The meeting came on the heels of a Citizen Television report on UoN gangs that allegedly murdered two students in cold blood under mysterious circumstances.
By Jared Too
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