Five
learners from Masinde Muliro university among those who got expelled last year
for leading demonstrations have been reinstated back to the institution.
This was
after they appealed successfully against the university senate's decision to
expel eleven learners, as well as suspending eleven others.
Acting
Academic Registrar Prof. Thomas Sakwa revealed that the five had already been
issued with warning letters, while the disciplinary committee chose to give
them one more chance.
However,
according to prof. Sakwa, "the students are required to pay for the
destruction of the property as the rest of the students did before they are
readmitted."
The others,
according to the registrar, were to serve their one-year suspension in addition
to an Sh12,000 fine as ordered before they can be accepted back.
A group of
nine others is set to serve their two-years suspension accordingly for their
active involvement in the riots. Prof. Sakwa attributed delayed decision by the
disciplinary committee owing to their busy schedule in preparing the 2019
December Graduation.
"The
management is not in any business to punish the students but to empower them.
It is for this reason that the Senate considered overturning the
expulsions," Prof. Sakwa clarified concerning the expulsion issue.