On Friday this week, a student election will take place at Kisii University where only delegates will be allowed to vote.
This will be the first time the students will be participating in an election after the University Act 2016, which provides for the election of student leaders through an electoral college.
This replaced the normal exercise where all students participated in the exercise.
"This system is meant to ensure that the university leadership is kept clean and it is not a plan to appoint favourite leaders," said Mr Francis Kerongo, the dean of students in the school.
However, students condemned the voting style saying that the style is meant to stop students from voting for the leaders who will air their grievances.
"This is not right because a few people cannot vote for thousands of us. This is a plan to ensure that Universities work with the leaders they can tame," said Samuel Wasike, an outgoing Kisii university student leader.
Alexina Ayega, another student said that chances that delegates are bribed was high.
"Those who don't have money will never be elected into these seats. Delegates will be bribed heavily which I believe will disadvantage me" she said Ayega.
In the previous electioneering period in universities, all the student leaders were voted in by the student.