Nandi Senator Kiprotich Cherargei has written a letter to the Speaker of the Senate requesting for an explanation on the new directive by Education CS Amina Mohammed.
This comes after CS Amina announced that the ministry will seek the help of police to arrest individuals who have defaulted on their Higher Education Loans Board (Helb) loans.
More than 74,000 Kenyans have been accused of defaulting their Helb loans, a situation which has forced the Ministry of Education to take the said action.
In the letter which was written on Thursday, February 21, 2019, the senator poses three questions to the Standing Committee on Education seeking to know if the CS is aware of the impact of the directive and how it will reduce the high unemployment and underemployment rates in the country.
"Explain why should the Ministry use the police to arrest the defaulters yet over 50 per cent of the graduates do not get jobs or are underemployed or underpaid? Explain whether deploying the police will solve the problem of unemployment or it will be criminalising of poverty and unemployment?" read the letter in part.
The public has expressed anger over CS Amina's directive, terming it ill-intentioned.
Among those who expressed their dissatisfaction with the directive include Embakasi East MP Babu Owino who threatened to marshall a mass action if the government arrested the defaulters.
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