A female student at the Garissa University library (Garissa University Facebook page)
Garissa University College will now chat its way forward as a full-fledged public University in the northern Kenya region after President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the planned chatter award to the institution on Monday.
The president who was campaigning in Garisa said the political situation in the country had derailed the plans to have the institution attain the status of an independent university as had been planned earlier.
He said the situation had forced him to sign the chatter while in Nairobi and it will only be delivered in his absentia.
He said there is a plan for him to visit the institution on the day he will unveil the university's first vice chancellor even as he awards the upgrade on Thursday.
"Thanks to the political situation in the country has not allowed us to proceed as had been scheduled and I will only sign the charter in Nairobi but we will be coming here to unveil the new Garisa University vice chancellor," said President Kenyatta.
Garissa University College has been a constituent college of Moi University since it's inception in 2011 in the facilities of the former Garissa Teachers Training College which prides as being the first to offer approved university degree courses in the Northern Kenya region.
In April 2015 when gunmen attacked the college killing several students, Moi University absorbed it's over 650 students to study at the main campus in Eldoret.