The other day I decided to do something rare by reading a rare book. Rare, not because it is not available but because few people if any find time to keenly read it as I did. I am talking of the green book. It is not the IEBC special register with people not captured on biometric voter registration but the Moi University green book. The book contains the rules and regulations governing students in this university of ours; a university with a difference, the university of choice.
After the thorough job, I came to a conclusion that our law enforcers are the most lenient of all administrators our nation is endowed with. If this is not the case then it could be that they have just decided to relax. Another explanation could also be that they too have not got time to read it. Surely in a university, one is too busy for such. Most of us are law breakers!
The good book begins with a welcome note from the Dean of students stating that the rules are just meant to make your stay comfortable and enjoyable as a student in Moi University. Yes, those are the exact words!
However I swear what follows, if well interpreted to form four leavers wishing to join our prestigious university, would make one change his/her mind and join a village youth polytechnic. Thank God the rules remain reference material like the vision 2030. They should be kept safely in the national collection of the Margaret Thatcher Library.
If somebody decided to follow the rules as they are, majority will be sent packing on suspension or even expulsion. Here we go:
Article 3.1.1 is very clear that all students MUST dress in acceptable attire all times and especially when attending lectures and any public function. Visit our lecture halls and you find ladies with miniskirts made from mosquito nets! Article 4.0 which has rules regarding halls of residence or hostels is the toughest and could send a fresher packing in fear. No one is allowed to visit another person’s room past 10.00 pm and before 10 am and the worst is to be found in an opposite sex hostel past 10 pm as commonly and jokingly known as the 10-to-10 rule. This is so even as statistics have it that in a night, more men than women sleep in hostel J.
Just imagine, knocking on your neighbour’s door at 9 am is supposed to send you home or serious action taken against you. That is what the document says!
No student is supposed to be cooking in hostels. To reinforce this, article 14 prohibits any student from possessing items such as knifes, sticks, and metals that would endanger other people’s lives. For instance if your room mate took up a case with the security claiming his/her life is threatened citing the above possessions, it would be a serious case were it not for our lenient law enforcers.
For those who like business, the law has this for you: hawking or any business in halls of residence is not be practised. Furthermore, any adverts people make everywhere must be approved by the Dean of Students. In fact to be stricter, article 14.6 prohibits holding meetings in lecture halls and halls of residence. At the mercy of law enforcers, students cook and sell beans, chapati and mandazi in hostels, contravening the above rules simultaneously.
The most crazy rule is that which requires students to seek permission to leave school just like in high school. The written leave of absence can only be granted by the Dean of students strictly on grounds of extreme sickness, maternity leave, compassionate leave or special leave on which evidence must be produced. On this, mark that going to mabs, falls, or Kesses is being out of school and you need such written permission. Crazy, isn’t it?
It does not just stop there. Any offences that contravene the penal code CAP 63 of the laws of Kenya will be treated as police cases in addition to separate disciplinary action by the university. Here the list is long. The most serious ones include being drunk and disorderly, attempting suicide and abortion among others. That is the rule but our law enforcers are either lenient or sleeping on the job.
One of these fine days, get time to read the book and be surprised for free. Now suppose someone somewhere was serious, would you survive? However, the law is very silent on religion, recognizing that the institution is secular. Over 98% of the total students’ population is made of law breakers, thanks to our lenient, kind and merciful law enforcers.
After the thorough job, I came to a conclusion that our law enforcers are the most lenient of all administrators our nation is endowed with. If this is not the case then it could be that they have just decided to relax. Another explanation could also be that they too have not got time to read it. Surely in a university, one is too busy for such. Most of us are law breakers!
The good book begins with a welcome note from the Dean of students stating that the rules are just meant to make your stay comfortable and enjoyable as a student in Moi University. Yes, those are the exact words!
However I swear what follows, if well interpreted to form four leavers wishing to join our prestigious university, would make one change his/her mind and join a village youth polytechnic. Thank God the rules remain reference material like the vision 2030. They should be kept safely in the national collection of the Margaret Thatcher Library.
If somebody decided to follow the rules as they are, majority will be sent packing on suspension or even expulsion. Here we go:
Article 3.1.1 is very clear that all students MUST dress in acceptable attire all times and especially when attending lectures and any public function. Visit our lecture halls and you find ladies with miniskirts made from mosquito nets! Article 4.0 which has rules regarding halls of residence or hostels is the toughest and could send a fresher packing in fear. No one is allowed to visit another person’s room past 10.00 pm and before 10 am and the worst is to be found in an opposite sex hostel past 10 pm as commonly and jokingly known as the 10-to-10 rule. This is so even as statistics have it that in a night, more men than women sleep in hostel J.
Just imagine, knocking on your neighbour’s door at 9 am is supposed to send you home or serious action taken against you. That is what the document says!
No student is supposed to be cooking in hostels. To reinforce this, article 14 prohibits any student from possessing items such as knifes, sticks, and metals that would endanger other people’s lives. For instance if your room mate took up a case with the security claiming his/her life is threatened citing the above possessions, it would be a serious case were it not for our lenient law enforcers.
For those who like business, the law has this for you: hawking or any business in halls of residence is not be practised. Furthermore, any adverts people make everywhere must be approved by the Dean of Students. In fact to be stricter, article 14.6 prohibits holding meetings in lecture halls and halls of residence. At the mercy of law enforcers, students cook and sell beans, chapati and mandazi in hostels, contravening the above rules simultaneously.
The most crazy rule is that which requires students to seek permission to leave school just like in high school. The written leave of absence can only be granted by the Dean of students strictly on grounds of extreme sickness, maternity leave, compassionate leave or special leave on which evidence must be produced. On this, mark that going to mabs, falls, or Kesses is being out of school and you need such written permission. Crazy, isn’t it?
It does not just stop there. Any offences that contravene the penal code CAP 63 of the laws of Kenya will be treated as police cases in addition to separate disciplinary action by the university. Here the list is long. The most serious ones include being drunk and disorderly, attempting suicide and abortion among others. That is the rule but our law enforcers are either lenient or sleeping on the job.
One of these fine days, get time to read the book and be surprised for free. Now suppose someone somewhere was serious, would you survive? However, the law is very silent on religion, recognizing that the institution is secular. Over 98% of the total students’ population is made of law breakers, thanks to our lenient, kind and merciful law enforcers.
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