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EDITORIAL: Resolve law course row

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Eldoret-based Moi University. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Whichever way one looks at it, the shenanigans surrounding law degree programmes at Moi University should not be left to continue.

This is because at the centre of the war pitting the Council for Legal Education (CLE) and the Eldoret-based university are hundreds of students pursuing law degrees.

In the latest incident, for instance, the CLE published a list of institutions that can legally offer law degrees countrywide – leaving out Moi University.

The university reckons that the CLE acted despite an existing court order limiting its actions on the matter. A legal entity acting in breach of court orders is the least the Kenyan public can expect from an institution such as the CLE.

But one also hopes that Moi University taken seriously the assessment it has been given on its capacity to offer law degree courses and ultimately the quality of its degrees.

Critical shortcomings such as lack of a library that can accommodate the number of students admitted and the qualifications of teaching staff are matters that cannot be wished away.

It would be helpful if parties to this dispute remembered that it is the livelihoods of students that is at stake in the unending supremacy war.