Parents protest over directive to buy new JKUAT laptops

Ann Wairimu Macharia whose son has been admitted to pursue procurement at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology(JKUAT) shows the laptop she had bought for her son. A row is simmering pitting JKUAT administration and parents over the mandatory requirement by the university that all the incoming students buy laptops being assembled at the institution before they are admitted. (PHOTO: KAMAU MAICHUHIE/ STANDARD)

A row has erupted between a university and parents over a requirement that new students must buy laptops from the institution.

Every First Year student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology now has to part with an extra Sh41,000 to acquire the laptop christened Taifa.