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Thursday 18 December 2014

Students react to the Ksh. 5, 122 Damage fee


It all came to a shock when the senate notified the Egerton University students  through the university website that they MUST pay the huge fine for the damages caused during the cold strike. Students have came out loud on the issue and some expressing their grievances on the ECL fb group. We pinned down some of their posts; all we can predict is another looming strike. Here are some of their posts:

What the hell is hapening in egerton,is this a school or a bussiness in operation? Do werealy have student leaders? I think we sud get back to bullot box. But will that help? Kaimenyi tunakuomba huingilie kati. Did they consinder the lives of the poor,who dnt even recieve hata adocken from the xo called Helb,i pity for these guys. On what creteria were non resdents exempted from this silly burden bestowed on us? Were there no possibilities that they came en left. Whis must have been a planned move to benefit some opportunistic en greedy pple. But trust me,anyone who eats this money just in a manner to suggest u want to oppress the poor students,u will pay it in one way or the other. U shall rem when a tragedy happens to u that u once oppressed the innocent comrades. I dnt say that the did was good,but naman ya coming up with this figure leaves a lot of....??????????????



are we paying the contractors or damages.. lets do the math Hostel payment breakdown
Barret  

64x4x5122=1,311,232
Uganda 

64x4x5122=1,311,232
Buru
20x24x3x5122=7,375,680
Hollywood
7x24x4x5122=3,441,984
Old hall
51x4x5122=1,044,888
Ruwe
13x24x4x5122=6,392,232
Tatton
1800x5122=9,219,600
Tsavo
236x5122=1,208,792
Taifa
64x4x5122=1,311,232....
Tukiacha maringo lavi riverside, river view n runda
Total is already 32,616,896.....
Who is fooling who??


It amazing when I hear out cry from comrades that SUEU to look at the matter of paying that huge amount at this hard economic time! when we were about to sit for the so called postponed examination ...I used to here and see some txt and posts that kama hawapeani exam card sote mtu asiingie exam rum!!!! ..where did they went when we have a burden to carry?? why do u SUEU sideline ur self as if u never said anything concerning examination??? Anyway, stop cheating pple that you can help them in reducing 5122/to any other little amount! ....This is the forth SUEU am seeing with some pple who call themselves leaders who are only there to be seen with all sorts of pride!!! .....I hate the statement "No exam card no exam "!

I love it when u guys hate on 11B. Badala mraukie mjengo mhustle ganji ya zero balance na extra 5200 ya damages....na fare kwa wale wanaishi mashinani mko busy mnatuchomea! sisi tushamaliza attachment sai on vacation ka sai nmeraukia beach ku sun bathe nkipumua breeze ya Indian ocean. Everyone knows we are a blessed class......Na msisahau kusomea hizo retakes zenu......I love this festive season sana. kila mtu atuwish merry christmass pliz coz attacho si mchezo......long live 11B class.

Dear SUEU, when we were choosing u as our leaders all we could see were courageous n 'comrades people' bt now all they do is act as the messengers from the admin to us. We have been asked to pay 5122 shillings as damages fee, well this is like opression to the students.Keeping in mind we still got fee balances to clear and rooms to again pay for. We chose able leaders who are to fight for our rights not able messengers!!!!! We still are counting on u.... If u cannot advocate for the reduction of the ammount then pliz buy as more time to and plead with the admin to allow all students to sit for exam and pay the fine later. ‪#‎comradespower‬ 

iam warning you comrades let the RESIDENT students pay the fine of kes.5,122 while other students ie non-residents,disable,international and other campus students ensure 0% balance then we sit for examination.other issues let us discuss later. i warn /11B,/12,/13,/14....until this old analog man retire Egerton will not have fairness. i quote"continue doing meeting even you can do it for 3years but the fact remain 0% balance" .if i may ask,what about -ve% balance are they be refunded before sitting exam? again what is the common point between positive(+)% and negative (-)% ? and when is opportunity cost zero !
comrades our future is fundamental let us cool down.
"when Old Dog Back,he Gives Counsel"
Thanks


me ntaambia paro wangu ata students wa diaspora wanalipa hyo 5122 afu naenda nayo shopping GILANIS.......

i thank those who participated wakati wa strike actually u did an amazing job mungu hawabariki wengine wenu mtakapo kuwa mnajipanga kudefer, majority of us didn't participate but nimelipa leo kshs 5,122 because of no exam cards no exam

freedom kam wth responsibility .....if mishandled consequences follow suit .....ka unaumwa na 5122 ka mm pamoja tukunywe painkiller bt my question is the sueu paying that animal labelled 5122...leaders shud lead frm the front igesso!

I propose that the SUEU leaders should seek an injuction from the High Court of Kenya at Nakuru to stop the University from implementing the NOTICE OF 17 DECEMBER 2014 seeking all the resident undergraduate students to pay a damage fee of Ksh.5122 UNTILL a fair assessment which will involve the student leaders is carried out. This might help instead of these leaders just posting empty words here.

5k is the same amount jkuat paid yet they did a global strike coupled with the fact they have a small ppln to egerton..i think this price is exorbitant. (am speaking for me).what about u

Let's do the maths:
The number of students residing within campus (excluding BH & Thornton) is roughly 7000. Now, multiplying that by 5122 (or let's make it 5000) gives me 35 million. I have done my own valuation of the damages, and it keeps bringing me to something in the neighbourhood of 7 million...give or take a million or 2. Which leads me to a crucial query that was initially posed by a comrade; does the admin actually want to buy an aeroplane??...coz that money we're paying... that's the kind of money that purchases a private jet, with a balance huge enough to construct a runway for it, and fuel it for a year.
But do we say.

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