Do everything possible to turn struggling universities around

Moi University is facing a serious financial crisis. [File, Standard]

When Nelson Mandela said, "education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world", the mantra in Kenya was that "education is the key to success." While these statements remain true, politics has rendered education, especially university education, a dispensable affair.

With the government focusing more on political survival, where is our higher education headed? How can the government deliver amidst political instability and divisions? Kenyans thought that since President William Ruto and his deputy have the highest university degree certificates, they could get the higher education sector out of the decades-long quagmire. Instead, the situation in our universities is getting worse.