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GOWN IN DISGUST

By Glen Don
GOWN IN DISGUST
The students at the University go through a lot before graduation.
As Kisii University alongside other Universities prepares to graduate students of their own, the students go through a lot.
Recently, I met one who was looking for marks, which did but could not trace where the marks have gone to, he narrated to me how he have gone from department to department and from school to school being that the units he was in search of are common. The student whose identity is concealed, expressed to me how dejected he is since time is also another fact to consider as the marks for graduation lot were to be presented before the Senate and the graduation list to be printed in a few weeks.
Elsewhere, I encountered a student who is yet to be graduated but was having an issue with the fee, where he found his fee adjusted yet he had cleared fees before sitting for his last papers.
Last year, I conversed with a student who nearly missed graduation just because she thought everything was nice until she looked at the list where she found her name omitted from the list. From there, the students had to run and do a follow-up of her name. It is the revision of the list that made her name appear on the list, her case was similar to the other four fellow graduates whom she was with.
The issues of "sexually transmitted grades" (marks awarded in favour of lovemaking) get room this time, and bribery finds its way in yet in any institution integrity is upheld, and transparency is recommended.
The dignity and esteem of the student are interfered with as the integrity and gross misconduct buds ghostly. No person will come to defend the comrade and no voices will be heard crying for justice. Because one fears profiling.
Those who have gone are not open to speak about it because they earned what was theirs despite the channel used.
Within the university, one will get to hear phrases like "tafuta viatu vya kutafuta marks", "Bora ni graduate" and "huyo lec aniweke ata D nigraduate niende," In as much as one may hear these statements mockingly but they get real meanings when you get to the office and find one graduand, there the language is acerbic and no more joke.
Putting on the gown has many meanings to one who has it because he or she knows what it has to take.
The Universities should have a smooth process of ensuring that the graduation process is sweet without any tears of agony. 
Let those who have been cleared to graduate be done away with without involving them in the conundrum of bureaucracy. When someone is clean let the person go his or her way. There is no sense that everything goes smoothly then at the end, the bloody sweat must stream.
High time for the universities to modify their systems and make things work properly.
Let students sing melodies out of happiness but not regret.
By Glen Don

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