Outspoken lawyer Miguna Miguna has reacted to reports that the government was planning to stop funding public universities.
In a statement on Saturday, November 5, Miguna maintained that all public universities in the country should be funded by public funds.
"Public universities must be funded by public funds, unless you want to privatize all public universities!" Miguna tweeted.
Miguna's remarks come after reports emerged on Saturday, November 5, that the government will stop funding the higher institutions.
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Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu has encouraged universities to look for other ways of generating income.
The CS maintained that education took a huge chunk of public funding and still many universities were faced with financial problems.
“I’m going to move around each and every university in Kenya because a number is faced with financial problems and we are encouraging that they must generate their own income because the exchequer as it is now is not going to continue funding more,” Machogu stated.
The remarks attracted mixed reactions from Kenyans considering the financial situation of many universities which previously had strikes over financial crises.
