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Students from Moi University are unhappy after local county politicians, led by Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson Mandago showed up at the university to protest the appointment of Professor Laban Ayiro as the acting Vice Chancellor.
Some members of the local community were vocal in their calls to have a VC who was ‘not an outsider’. This prompted negative reactions from the public, with many of them criticizing the politicians and the actions which were seen as tribal. Students at the university have added to the conversation by ridiculing the tribal politics, which they see as irrelevant and backward.
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