The newly appointed Moi University Vice-Chancellor Prof. Isaac Kosgey has said that cooking in the hostels may soon be banned due to the danger that the students are exposed to.
Prof. Kosgey was speaking during the commissioning of a walkway at the university when he expressed his concern on the matter.
"I recently walked in the school of engineering hostels and I was shocked by the danger that we have put our students in. The students are cooking using naked wires and might easily get electrocuted," he said.
The VC noted that the administration may be forced to construct a kitchen outside the hostels where the students will be cooking from in order to avoid cases of electrocution.
Currently, the students cook using coils which they connect to the power-source with some using naked wires.
Moi University is among the few universities in the country that allow cooking in the hostels other than Egerton and the University of Nairobi.
This may, however, be a disadvantage to the students who find cooking in the hostels affordable. Most of the students at the Kesses-based institution say it is expensive to eat from the school mess and hotels.
It is a matter of 'wait and see' if the new VC will ban cooking in hostels, and what the student's reaction would be.