BAN OF COOKING IN MOI UNIVERSITY

Cooking being one of the major activities in the hostels, it is contrary condemned in the institution’s rules. Now after the appointing of the new Vice Chancellor Prof. Isaac Kosgey it has being seriously banned since it is found risky for the safety of the students.

It has been a while the institution prohibiting the act and the students just ignore, bearing in mind once caught the penalty is a suspension of a whole academic year.
Almost all the hostel sockets are seen to be damaged. Students disconnect the wires leaving naked to make it possible for the connection of cooking coils. According electricity expert it is very risky since a short-circuit might occur or even electrocution. Therefore, it is said to be endangering the students’ lives when the practice goes on.

Prof. Isaac Kosgey, the Vice Chancellor paid a visit the engineering hostels and was shocked to see how the students do their connections. “I recently walked in the school of engineering hostels and I was shocked by the danger that we have put our students in. The students are cooking using naked wires and might easily get electrocuted,” he said.

In hostels like in the Soweto area, cases of electricity tripping have being reported. When a follow up is taken, the causes are found to be the disconnections done by the students. The cases just continue since rarely are any actions taken.

The vice Chancellor, Prof. Isaac Kosgei proposed building of kitchens/cooking rooms out of the hostels that will serve all the students. Building of the kitchens will keep the hostels safe since it will discourage the tampering of the hostels’ electric connections. A large number of students have agreed to the idea being a useful one but the question remains, “WHEN WILL THE PLAN BE IMPLEMENTED.”

The university has already put the law of no cooking in place even before building the offsite kitchens. Do you think the action is right? The university officials say yes while to the students it is a big NO! The officials reason on the safety dimension whereby stopping the cooking stops the risks with immediacy, whereas, the students feel it is not right because it will cost them more. They will have to continuously take their meals in the school mess and from outside hotels, which is expensive compared to cooking on their own.