Parliament will summon Vice Chancellors over lectures' strike that has paralysed learning in public universities.
The Parliament Committee on Education wants an explanation as to why the university managers do not want to to honour a collective bargaining agreement that saw the government release Sh3.9 billion to be paid to the lecturers.
Although no timelines for the summons has been given, the House Committee on Education Vice Chairman Julius Meli said the situation was getting out of hand and Parliament should intervene.
“We will not sit back as Parliament when the crisis is affecting the education of students,” he said.
Mr Meli who is the MP for Tindiret Constituency added: “VCs are to blame over the strike in the public universities in the country and the only way out is to get to the bottom of the problem by interrogating the VCs to tell us what exactly happened with the money.
”Speaking in Tindiret Constituency in Nandi County, Mr Meli who accompanied by Mosop MP Kirwa Bitok, accused the VCs of causing the current crises in the universities warning that they will not get away with misusing tax payers money.
He added the money which government gave to universities was not meant for development projects but to pay salaries for university lecturers and other staff.He said universities have no option but to pay its staff since the money is already in the hands of VCs.
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