This archive report was first published on 21 August 2019.
Published on August 21, 2019, a High Court case is set to determine the fate of nearly 700 Moi University students locked out of their graduation ceremony.
On August 15, 2019, Justice John Mativo declined to temporarily halt the graduation ceremony, scheduled for August 22, 2019, but directed that the matter be heard and determined in Mombasa during the judges' conference.
The students, led by Violet Ombaka Atieno, Obegi Malak Ochweri, and 11 others, claim their names are missing from the graduation list despite completing their studies at the institution's School of Information Sciences between 2015 and 2016.
According to the institution's schedule of studies, they ought to have graduated in December 2018, but lecturers' strikes at the university pushed the graduation to August 22, 2019.
The students are holding onto the hope that the court will compel the institution to include them in the graduation list, despite the university's claims that it is too late for them to be listed for graduation due to huge fee balances and missing marks.
