Maseno School of Nursing students on rampage Saturday morning, June 17, 2017. They alleged that the training facility was poorly managed. [Photo: hivisasa.com]
Maseno School of Nursing has been indefinitely closed after students went on rampage on Saturday morning protesting what they termed as 'poor management of the institution'.
They blamed the management of failing to handle pertinent issues affecting the institution despite expressing their concerns through student leaders.
The students said some of their colleagues did not have admission numbers despite being in the institution for more than a year and paying school fees.
The students also alleged that the institution did not have enough tutors and some of them were incompetent with no experience in teaching nursing courses.
“We have tutors who have no experience of teaching and they give very shallow content that makes no difference to us, in fact some of them are interns,” said Jane Ambiyo.
The students also protested what they termed as dictatorship and unnecessary fee increment without consulting with their parents as they had earlier agreed.
They claimed 14 students had been suspended by the institution for expressing their displeasure in the way the institution was frustrating them despite paying for the services.
“We are being threatened every now and then for expressing our concerns, just recently 14 of our colleagues were suspended and today we are being sent home indefinitely for demonstrating peacefully against poor management,” said one of the students who identified herself as Sheila.
The Principal, Cecily Odhiambo declined to comment on the allegations claiming to be held up with other issues.
The institution was initially owned by Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) Maseno North Parish alongside Maseno Mission School but was later controversially sold to Port Florence Hospital, with the students saying their troubles began immediately during handover.
“The problem started when the management shifted from the church (ACK) to Port Florence hospital. Our school and the Mission hospital (Maseno Mission Hospital) were brought under one management unlike when the church was in charge, that is how confusion began,” one of the students said.