The recent utterances by the Cabinet Secretary of Education Amb.Dr.Amina Mohammed over the partnership of HELB and police to hunt down HELB loan defaulters has sent shivers and sparked a reaction from key education stakeholders.
Former Presidential candidate Abduba Dida has opposed the move.
He laughed off the government on the assertion that loan defaulters will be followed to their workplaces and be compelled to pay the loan.
Taking to his twitter handle on Wednesday evening Dida expressed annoyance by the CS stating that the essence of arresting unemployed loan defaulters will just congest the prisons while the same people will continue being unemployed hence not paying back to cover the loan.
"HELB goes after 74,000 defaulters, arrests and locks them up! They are still unemployed so no money recovered. Prison crisis," he tweeted.
The former English literature teacher at Lenana school further posited that the government weighs opportunity cost since it started the war on graft has seen "trillions" recovered.
Other leaders concerned by the move are Senator Millicent Omanga who has defended the unemployed loanees.
"The idea of HELB coordinating with the police to hunt down loan defaulters is ill-advised, impolitic and injudicious," posted Omanga on her Facebook page.