"Here at the university of Nairobi we are just suffering, we don't have rooms. The university doesn't want to hear us. Some of the students are sleeping in the TV rooms. You will find that in a room there are five students squeezing in a single room," he said in a viral video.
He aadded, "We are asking the ministry of education to look into this. There were some prefabs that were closed. They were housing 957 students and thus they acquired rooms that were to house second year students and some third year students. So as we speak over 2000 students don't have accommodation."
The student said he comes from Laikipia county and cannot afford accommodation away from the campus hostels.
"And I don't have anyone who can house me in Nairobi.We are sleeping in the cold, classes have started, I don't have anything to eat, we don't know what to do."
Out of 85,000 applicants to the University of Nairobi this semester, only 10,000 will get hostel accomodation.
The Director of Corporate affairs, John Orindi, dismissed claims that students are sleeping on pavement floors and TV rooms.
"There is limited accommodation, there are so many students who want hostels but we can only give a few," he said.
This comes after images and a video surfaced online showing students allegedly from the university sleeping on pavements and in hostel TV rooms.
Orindi confirmed that he had seen the video and images.
He discharged the claims stating the student in the video circulating is an aspiring student leader. He claimed that he was using the situation to insight others and market himself for one of the leadership positions.
"No student is allowed to sleep outside the hostels on pavements or TV rooms. It is actually against the law and anyone caught should be arrested."
He further stated that the university does not admit students on bed capacity and parents are requested to find alternative accommodation before enrolling them.
"There is an accommodation ratio that we have to conform to and we advice parents to make other arrangements for accommodation just incase their child misses a spot," he said.
First priority is however given to first year, fourth year and special needs students.
This is because first year students are new in the campus and fourth year students need time and focus to complete their studies and projects.
Orindi advised the students to refrain from dramatizing the issue and follow the online application procedure to get accommodation.
Watch the viral video below...
