A section of legislators have requested President Uhuru Kenyatta to relinquish debts owed by jobless youths to the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB).
The MP’s have further warned HELB against threatening those who have defaulted after the board said it will publish and make public over 85,500 names of defaulters and photographs on local print media.
The youthful MPs Led by Embakasi East MP Babu Owino have however defended the jobless Kenyans who were beneficiaries of the education loans saying the HELB shouldn’t intimidate or threaten jobless youths who are currently struggling to make ends meet.
The MPs argue that it’s Government’s responsibility to educate its citizens, and called on the President to waive the debt.
The lawmakers have further raised concern over the heavy penalties being charged by the education loans board for nonpayment saying it amounts to threats.
HELB is pursuing a total of 50 billion shillings in unpaid loans from former students.
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