More than 44 University students in both public and private universities in Kenya have joined terror groups to fight in Somalia, Libya and Syria.
According to Commission for University Education (CUE) Chief Executive Officer Prof David Some, the students have either been flown or driven out of the country.
Speaking to an educational conference at Kenyatta University, Prof Some said that 17 of the students who have joined terror groups are girls.
"The terror group networks are targeting students who are pursuing medicine, law, nursing, engineering and psychology for recruitment," he noted.
Echoing the same sentiments, National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) director Isaac Ochieng, said Kenyan youth are spending an average of eight hours a day on terror-related websites contacting extremists. Prof. Some called on the Vice chancellors to give security issues a top priority in their universities.
"The vice chancellors should be involved in the County security meetings and they should give security matters at the universities a top priority," he said.
A few weeks ago similar sentiments were expressed by the director of Criminal Investigations Department Ndegwa Muhoro who said that the agency was concerned over the number of parents who were reaching them on the same. He noted that they had profiled the cases of the missing youth.
Two medical interns at the Malindi hospital, Kilifi County were over the weekend arrested for allegedly having links to terror group ISIS.