Why universities choose to sit back as others build state

University of Nairobi (UoN) medical students took to the streets in January outside the Ministry of Health offices in Nairobi, over the Government's failure to implement the doctor's 2013 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). PHOTO BY GEORGE NJUNGE

By the time this article is published, Kenyans will have known the outcome of the Supreme Court process which saw the opposition contest the re-election of Uhuru Kenyatta.

The recent elections did not produce any notable shocks as far as voting patterns are concerned. We are a hopelessly divided country. Tribe still rules and much of what we call voter behaviour in this country is simply an ethnic census. If the so named ‘tyranny of numbers’ was insufferable in the last four years, it will be nauseating in the next five years.