Troubles students take to govern college

When a college student spends millions campaigning for a seat tagged with a Sh6,000 monthly allowance, the act is laughed off as conceited folly of the highest degree. Such wannabe politicians are dismissed as youth plagued with an identity crisis, out to quench their thirst for recognition and a little fame. All these conclusions are not entirely spot-on, as Hashtag has established through a keen investigation.

Jacob Siwa, who seats on the University of Nairobi Students Organisation (Sonu) congress as a faculty representative divulges that one needs at least Sh3 million to vie for any of the highest student governance seats.