On Monday, traffic and key activities in Nairobi’s Central Business District (CBD) around the Anniversary Towers that hosts the Higher Education Loans Board were disrupted after University of Nairobi (UoN) students stormed the offices demanding disbursement of student loans.
The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) has since announced that it had resorted to disbursing the funds to first and second-year students using the old model pending a decision on an appeal against the High Court suspension of the new model.
The UoN students, in a press statement delivered on Sunday by their President Madzayo, revealed that they will be marching to the HELB offices to demand disbursement of student loans.
The students decried that some would miss course registration deadlines, aside from other financial challenges.
During their march to the HELB offices, the students gathered outside Anniversary Towers, chanting and criticizing the board’s management over the financial delays.
Police, however, denied the students entry into the board’s offices, while urging them to go back to school.
Transport along Nairobi’s Thika Road was paralysed for a better part of Monday morning after students from Kenyatta University staged a march towards the town centre to join their comrades from UoN on the issue of delays.
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