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| Former Garissa University College students fill documents during admission at Moi University’s Main Campus in Eldoret on May 21, 2015. The students will take the remainder of their studies at the campus |
Students who survived last month’s terrorism attack on Garissa
University College were on Wednesday received at Moi University in
Eldoret where they will complete their studies.
Deputy
vice-chancellor in charge of students’ affairs, Prof Nathan Ogechi, said
they expected 650 students to join the main campus from the
Garissa-based institution, which is its constituent college.
The April 2 terrorist attack killed 148 people - 142 of them students.
Prof
Ogechi said the new group of students would report to the School of
Arts and Social Sciences, School of Education, School of Business and
Economics and School of Information Sciences.
“We are
talking about 349 first year and 308 second year-students. So far, we
have admitted three quarters of these,” said Prof Ogechi.
The
students will not be charged any fee upon admission and will be taught
by their lecturers from GUC the Garissa college until next semester,
when they are expected to join their Eldoret campus colleagues for
classes.
The students will undertake their orientation
today with the dean of students before going through trauma and
psycho-social education by the university’s counsellors until Monday
next week.
Moi University Students Organisation(MUSO)
chairman Geoffrey Omondi assured the new students that security has been
beefed up across the entire university, saying that plans were underway
to have a police post set up at the university.
He said there was adequate accommodation for all the students.
