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Unmasking the Debt Crises in Universities and What to Do About it!

Kenya University Staff Union (KUSU) lecturers demonstrate along Nairobi's streets, June 6th, 2017. [Photo: Elvis Ogina / Standard]

This was no breaking news. With all elements of alarm and the ingredients of an interesting story, news reports that universities have been ‘holding’ on to statutory payments such as pensions, health insurance deductions, bank loan repayments and other monies, is not new.

For over five years now, universities have been struggling to meet basic daily financial obligations. This column has on several times raised this issue.

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