President William Ruto has responded to questions about admissions to universities after the government recalled all university admission letters over exorbitant fees.
Speaking in Kisii, Ruto assured the public that the government is taking measures to ease the financial burden on parents as they prepare to send their children to higher education institutions.
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According to the head of state, the previous admission letters sent to students quoted exorbitant charges for courses, ranging from Ksh200,000 to Ksh300,000 which were erroneously indicated hence the recall of the letters.
“I want to assure you that we are giving a new directive today because initially, the letters that our children received had expensive charges for courses ranging from Ksh200,000 to Ksh300,000.”
“All those letters should be revoked, and from today, we will be sending new letters that show the amount of money parents are expected to pay. The previous letters that were issued by our universities were misleading because they were talking about the cost of the courses.”
The Ruto directive comes after parents raised alarm over the huge amount of money that had been indicated in university admission letters forcing the government to direct all the letters null and void and universities to issue new ones.
“I want to tell all parents in Kenya, the letters that you received from universities indicating the cost of the course your child was going to attend, those letters are misleading.
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“We are going to instruct universities to issue new letters from today that will indicate how much a parent is to pay and not the cost of the course of their child,” President Ruto assured kenyans.