The University students, led by University of Nairobi’s Students leader Makori Orina, have protested last week’s directive by Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed to have Higher Education Loans Board (Helb) loan defaulters arrested and prosecuted.
Amina had said that the directive would enable HELB recover Ksh.7.2 million owed by loan defaulters.
The Students have however vowed to put pressure on her until she resigns.
“We will put pressure on CS Mohamed until she steps down. She has been making bad decisions,” Mr Orina said.
The students, who insisted on addressing the press in the middle of the road, caused a traffic snarl up on Nairobi’s University Way.
“The streets will be impassable on Monday if she (Ms Amina Mohamed) does not listen to us,” Eric Ochola, a student from the South Eastern Kenya University said.
They have also threatened to take to the streets over plan to increase tuition fees.
Speaking to journalists outside the Anniversary Towers, in Nairobi on Monday, student leaders from various universities declared that on Monday next week, they would hold countrywide demonstrations to protest the raising of fees from Sh16000 to Sh48000.
The proposal to increase fees was arrived at at a meeting by vice-chancellors from public universities, who claimed that expenses had gone up and more money was needed to effectively run the institutions.