Maseno university vice chancellor Julius Nyabundi has warned students against joining terror groups

Maseno university vice chancellor Julius Nyabundi has warned students against joining terror groups.  He added that if any student shall be found associated with any terror group, action will be taken unto the student individually. Concern has been raised over students from institutions of higher learning joining terror groups Al Shabbab and ISIS. Speaking on Monday at the institution’s Kisumu campus, Nyabundi also warned them against peer pressure and involving in activities which are not academic oriented.

He spoke during the orientation of first year students at the Kisumu campus branch. The VC further asked students to be brother’s keepers and stick to the rules and regulations of the university. He also announced the ban of all ethnics groups within the university following the government directory to ban ethnic groups in universities. He however said that they will only allow discipline oriented associations such as business and economics and philosophy students groups. This is to help bring cohesion among the students.

The vice chancellor also asked the new students to help put Maseno University at its level by maintaining discipline wherever they are, this according to him, will help in judging the conduct of the university in the society. Professor Nyabundi added that Maseno is the only university that offers IT (Information Technology) to all students in all its programmes. This has gone a long way to provide the university graduates with the undisputed advantage in the modern IT work platform. He also urged parents whose children scored the D+ grades to go and register them for certificates programmes as they upgrade their learning from diploma to having PHDS.

“I have known people who started as p3 teachers and are now professors, one should not be judged by his or her grades, some struggled enough to reap it”, he said. Nyabundi added that students from village schools who scored such grades should not be judged as some struggled to get the grades out of the worst situations from their schools. He said each student should have access to higher education in order to gain knowledge which can help them in various innovations.

“If we put these students to exposure we will be building and molding them to future entrepreneurs”. He added.