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'Downgrading Mama Ngina university is bad move'

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Mutomo villagers accuse area MP Gabriel Kagombe of orchestrating a plan to downgrade Mama Ngina University into a TVET. [Fidelis Kabunyi, Standard]

Mutomo villagers in Gatundu South, Kiambu County are up in arms after it emerged that the government, through some local leaders want to downgrade Mama Ngina University into a Technical and Vocational Education and Training Centre (TVET).

The locals, who were set to benefit from the project by putting up rental houses and establishing small businesses that would serve students and university staff, accused area MP Gabriel Kagombe of orchestrating the plan with the Education Ministry to advance certain political interests.

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