Former National Assembly Deputy Speaker Farah Maalim has urged leaders to scorn ethnicity in higher learning institutions.
The call comes a day after a section of Rift Valley leaders led by Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson Maandago and his Marakwet counterpart Alex Tolgos stormed Moi University main campus with locals, protesting against the appointment of Prof. Laban Ayiro as the institution's acting Vice Chancellor by the Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i.
In a Twitter post published on the former legislator's official Twitter account on Wednesday, Maalim termed actions taken by the Rift Valley leaders as 'shameful and regrettable.'
"Big shame seeing well endowed intellectuals agitating a cheap tribal agenda.Their audacity is sickening. Keep ethnicity away from education," Maalim tweeted.