JKUAT closed indefinitely amid strike fears

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) was on Wednesday closed indefinitely after the administration learnt of a planned strike by the students.

Students currently in session and boarding at the varsity’s halls of residence at the main campus were ordered to leave the university premises by 2.30pm.

A student who sought anonymity confirmed to trendsKenya that they were planning to go on strike over poor services at the institution but did not reveal when the strike was set to happen.

“We were to strike over negligence of student infrastructure such as poor sanitation, poor Wi-Fi connectivity in school,” said the student. ” we were issued a notice with less than ten minutes to vacate the hostels.

This comes a day after students at Kenyatta University demonstrated complaining that the duration they had been in school was too short for the institution to administer end of semester exams.