By Standard Team
While the nation is still stunned by allegations that some students in Mombasa were involved in bestiality, Maseno University student Munyiri Ng’ethe blames the moral decadence in our institutions of higher learning on the Higher Education Loans Board (Helb).
“Although lack of enough pocket money should not serve as an excuse for students to engage in immorality, Helb has played a major role in fueling bad manners among university students,” he declares.
The board, he explains, gives students meagre loans, which makes it hard for them to survive. “The students end up using all the money to pay raised university fees leaving them with little or nothing to spend on their basics.”
He notes that since 1990s and despite rising inflation, the board has never revised the student loans making their lives difficult.
In addition, Ng’ethe laments that some deserving students get little or no funding at all due to Helb’s failure to do background checks.
“Tough life motivates the students, especially females to look for crude means of survival including commercial sex,” he concludes. Any additional help, for these souls, Helb?
