Immediate former Moi University Students Organization (MUSO) Secretary General Moses Tisa has faulted plans by the Ministry of Education to arrest over 74,000 Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) defaulters.
Tisa says the move revealed on Wednesday by Cabinet Secretary Amb. Amina Mohammed is ill intended and meant to victimize thousands of jobless youths.
Speaking to the press in Eldoret town on Wednesday, Tisa said the government should first employ youths before asking them to pay their HELB loans.
“You took a loan to fund your education expecting to get a job and pay back the money and after graduating you haven’t gotten a job, where do you expect us to get the money to pay back? Most of those youths are unemployed and can't even afford money to feed themselves,” he noted.
Tisa further said the government should first create jobs before embarking on arresting the loan defaulters.
“If they want to arrest 74,000 youths who are HELB loan defaulters, let them first arrest the government since we were given loans on the basis that they will give us give us jobs then we pay. Nobody has given us jobs thus we can’t pay,” he insisted.
The former student leader also asked the government partner with law enforcement agencies to track cartels behind the looting of funds at the NYS, SGR, Eurobond, Afya House, Ministry of Health and NCPB rather than going after innocent young men and women.
CS Amina had said that the loan defaulters will be arrested in a bid to recover Sh7.2 billion from them.
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