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    "content": "Secondly, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, whereas the first strike was largely caused by the issue of registration deadline, the second strike was motivated by the suspension of the Kenyatta University Student Association (KUSA) leaders who wanted to be reinstated to the university at all costs. In addition to students at the university, other parties also participated in the strike. This included academic staff members, some student leaders of other universities - in fact, it is said some student leaders in other universities sat to organize to support the KU students - and some external forces. There are other issues that make KU more vulnerable including the fact that it is very porous. There is also a squatter settlement nearby so that it is taken advantage of by those who want to cause trouble. It seems like staff members may also have participated. One of the reasons that staff members may have participated is because of welfare issues that they were complaining about; allowances and other payments. But there was also the issue - what Mr. Wamwere has referred to as negative ethnicity in that it was quite clear that sides were taken by various ethnic groups depending on the forces that they were supporting. This was quite evident. There was also the involvement of external actors who may have been motivated by other factors including – there are those who think that the KU has been doing so well, so there are issues of whether or not their envy was involved. There existed some communication problems also. This must be illustrated very clearly that there was not enough communication between the university administration and the student and the staff on the other hand. It is possible that if there had been much better communication, maybe some of the problems that came up would have not have been as dramatic and as serious as we witnessed. There are a number of recommendations that were made by the two committees. The first one was that students, who had participated in the incident which had compromised the operations of the university, would have to be dealt with firmly, according to the laid down procedure of the university. Out of the students who were identified as having been involved directly in the problem, 51 of them were identified and summoned for disciplinary action. Out of those, 11 were expelled, 14 suspended and 23 exonerated. They were warned and told that they should not be involved in these kinds of things. Two students were told that they should not have been called in the first place because they had nothing to do with the strike. Members of staff who were also adversely involved would be dealt with, according to the laid down procedure. The university policy on registration deadline"
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