Garissa Governor Nathif Jama is calling on the Jubilee government to come up with a kitty for faith-based and private universities to help them modernize and expand their infrastructure.
“Higher education as a business initiative has a long gestation period. There is apparently no profit for most private universities in their first 15 to 20 years of establishment. Without the state assistance, the proprietor might be forced to struggle. The government needs to create kitty to help such universities sustain themselves and help the local communities being targeted,” he said.
Speaking in Al-Mustaqbal University in Garissa, the county boss affirmed that faith based universities had laid the necessary basis for receiving funds from the exchequer by having raised moral standards of students in their colleges.
He also issued that such institutions of higher learning had offered parents and students a wider choice of learning institutions, adding that ill discipline had been significantly dealt with in graduates through instilling strong morals.
Jama said the funds, if established, would be given to infrastructural investments in the fields of science, technology, agriculture, engineering, mining energy, Information and communication Technology, medicine among others.
The governor added that by creating such a kitty, the state would widely encourage more investors to come up with more universities if the country is to address the challenges of accessing higher education.