How tribalism and corruption thrives in Universities

Kenya: On the 24^th of July 2015, students in Moi University marked the historic calendar by voting in the 29^th student governing council in what has been termed as the most controversial elections in the history of Moi University. Cases of tribal affiliations and divisions punctuated the entire electioneering period with intellectuals openly disputing the fact that education changes individuals and every campaign day, the difference between an intellectual campaigning and an unlearned person campaigning in the village were so minute… and today we ask, can education really change a person’s mindset?

We have grown up in a society where by we are encouraged to “go to school, learn and became better persons” but apparently the recent twists and turns in the Kenyan universities dispute the fact that education changes people….