UASU calls for the withdrawal of the privatization bill

Universities Academic Staff Union UASU has rejected the proposed bill that seeks to privatise public universities. UASU has said the move is a threat to freedom of the education sector in the country. The organisation together with the Kenya Universities Staff Union says poor students will be denied an opportunity to higher education as the move aims at benefiting children from well off families. The union further says the move will render many staff of public universities redundant. AS such, the union is now demanding that the government withdraws the universities from state coroporation privatization bill 2023 failure to which, all employees of public universities will resort to other available means of protest.