By Amoto Dennis
Garissa University risks closure unless it settles Sh84million debt owed to workers and suppliers.
Top on the agenda is the annual Sh10 milion paid to the armed security service unit in the campus.
The university was attacked by terrorists in April, 2015. Some 147 people were killed, most of them students.
Al Shabaab militants raided the institution, which was then a constituent college of Moi University.
The nine months closure never went down well with self-sponsored students, the business community, local and national leaders.
The Government not only caved in to their demands and reopened the college but promised Sh500 million grant.
The money which hasn’t been delivered was to be used for rebuilding, Kenya’s 31st public university.
‘’The Sh500 million was to be spent on a library, construct management block, buffet, and hire more lecturers,’’ said an official who requested anonymity.
The university is struggling to sustain lecturers and other staff since they are paid hardship allowance of Sh30 million annually, which is not in the ministry’s budget.
