Youths and politicians who stormed the University of Eldoret yesterday were tear-gassed by the anti riot police officers.
Uasin Gishu senator Isaac Melly and KANU activist Jonathan Bii were together with more than 500 of the protesters who demanded the removal of vice chancellor Teresia Akenga.
The protestors were tear-gassed and forced to disperse. They accused Akenga of nepotism and corruption in the exercise of hiring the employees of the university.
Melly told the press that his county would not allow a few individuals to practice corruption when they could be promoting development and fighting against this vice.
"The University has more than 300 staff that come from the host’s community and yet they have not been employed permanently even after working for more than twenty years in the institution. We need the vice chancellor to be very transparent and to kindly resign from her job to pave way for investigations,” Melly said.
Speaking while at her office Teresia Akenga told the press that senator Melly had never even met her to discuss the issue or even reported or written a statement with the police over the graft at the college.
"The confidential black book which is in my custody has all the number and names of all the employees who works at the institution. What I wonder most is what the senator wants with this institution. I strongly condemn the actions of the senator and ask him to apologise to the university,” Akenga said.