By Our Reporter
The High Court in Mombasa has ordered Moi University to compensate students who dragged it to court after it failed to include them in the graduation list.
The 13 students had protested their exclusion from the list despite having satisfied all the requirements. The 38th graduation is slated for Thursday 22nd August 2019. The court had earlier declined their request to stop the graduation until they are included in the list.
Judge Pauline Nyamweya directed the university to pay the students sh 50,000 each for violations of their rights and ensure they graduate during the next graduation ceremony within 90 days.
In a landmark ruling on Wednesday, the court also ordered the university to avail reasons to each petitioner why they were omitted from the list.
The affected students were supposed to graduate on December last year but the graduation was pushed to August 2019 due to the lecturers strikes. Their students’ cards expired in December 2018.
The petitioners’ advocate Eunice Nganga told the court that the university had violated their rights to fair administrative action contrary to A47, dignity contrary to A28 and denied them freedom from psychological torture contrary to A29(d) and freedom from non discrimination contrary to A27 Constitution of Kenya.
