The SRC president designate at NUST, Charles Munjenjema, said the student situation was bad.
“The university authorities have instructed its attachment assessors not to attend students who have arrears to the institution. We are very worried about why the authorities could be so ruthless at this time when the economic situation is unstable for everyone including the government which fails to adequately pay its employees,” said Munjenjema.
Munjenjema urged NUST to stop implementing such policies which he said crippled the future of the country.
“NUST as a government institution must realise that if the government which is the pay master of many people cannot satisfy its workers, it is the same with the students who most of them have parents who are being under paid by
the same government,” he said.
NUST’s public relations and information director, Felix Moyo, confirmed the developments.
“Attachment is part of examination and those who owe us are not assessed. If one wants to board a plane he/she has to pay first and that is how we do it,” said Moyo.
Asked why they did not allow the students to write exams and why they withheld certificates after the completion of the course, Moyo said through experience they had discovered that most students did not honour such agreements.
“The students who were allowed to write the exams in anticipation that they would pay after completion decide to collect transcripts and disappeared without paying and to date they have not collected the certificates,” Moyo noted.
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