Right to vote is under the university act which allows students to participate in their democratic rights. Moi University as always is counting hours as they line up to elect their new leaders. On Friday 7th February 2020 the students are lining up in their various voting centers as they vote for their favorite leaders. According to one of the election official, the voting centers were open as early 7 am and were expected to be closed by 6 pm hoping everybody had voted by that time. They hoped for a free, fair and credible election as there were claims of election rigging.
Students were streaming in the voting stations as they were excited for the process. Each kept bragging about their candidates while some tried to lure others to voting for their candidates. The aspirants were also present and voted each one hoping for the best but prepared for the worst as in this race there must be a winner and a looser. Each of them trying not to campaign in fear of disqualification.
“We hope that the leaders we are electing this time round will always take our interests as the major task and represent us. We do hope so because our student leaders have a tendency of leaning towards the administration’s side after elections”, one student commented. Is this a new dawn for the students? We sure hope so because it seems they are committed to voting. In comparison, this year many students participated in the process as to last year. As the voting continues, students are forming “kamukunjis” as they wait for the process to wind up and the counting to begin. More to follow as events continue to unfold in this institution.
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