COMRADES DIVIDED OVER DEMO

COMRADES DIVIDED OVER DEMO

Perhaps goons were excited by the academics Director – Jairo Moses’ announcement of a mother of all demonstrations on Monday 20th June. The objective being to pressurize for the release of missing marks and academic results of students especially from the schools of education and Arts and Social Sciences.

According to the information posted on his Face book timeline, Jairo announced that all classes would be suspended and all academic activities paralyzed forthwith until the demand are met. The message was received by comrades differently especially on the Facebook Page Real Comrades of Main Campus where it was shared and discussed extensively. The always united comrades fraternity got divided into pro demo and anti - demo with each pact trying to convince the neutral ones.

A group which tended to represent second years supported the demo terming that it would be as peaceful and objective as possible.
However, there was a twist hours later when an aspirant in the academics docket posted a screenshot of his chat with the Dean School of Arts and Social Sciences, where the dean assured that the transcripts would be printed by Monday. This meant that the demonstration would be unnecessary

The Secretary General to Moi University Education Students Association (MUESA) again posted a memo with an anti-demo message. He stated that he had met the classesreps from the school of education and resolved to use other means to get their marks apart from the demo. According to Ojwang’, the class reps meeting resolved to follow the marks from the Head of Departments and not from the streets.

Nobody knows which side is stronger but it’s a reality that we are being used for either good or bad. With the political temperatures rising, demos are inevitable but we must make our decisions wisely.