The 2016 University of Nairobi student organisation elections should be nullified, a committee appointed by vice chancellor Peter Mbithi has recommended.
Sonu affairs and elections chaired by professor Godfrey Muriuki also wants the students' organization suspended.
The team proposed to the National Assembly Committee on Education that a caretaker committee be appointed to run the union's affairs.
"Sonu elections are chaotic, shameful and undermine the status of the university as a world class institution. There is laxity in enforcing rules," the report says.
The probe team also accused the UoN management of taking sides in students' elections
In the disputed results of April 1 elections, incumbent Babu Owino was controversially declared winner against .
Students , forcing the varsity management to close the college indefinitely.
"The candidates are cleared without taking into account their registration status, class attendance, academic standing and good conduct. Sonu elections are never free and fair. Tribalism is rampant," the report says.
"The elections are a mockery of democracy. Students have lost faith in the election petition panel. Well-to-do students seek positions and elections are determined by and bribery," the committee observed.
The committee included among others, professors Maria Nzomo, Robert Obudho, Dominic Wamugunda and Lilian Odera.
Another committee sanctioned by the UoN Senate and chaired by professor Jane Mariara - director school of education - noted misuse of hall of residence, inadequate psychosocial support for students, ineffective management of criminal cases , lack of intelligence gathering as some of the contributing .
"Goonism, indiscipline and gangsterism exist at the university. The disciplinary process and measures have not been dynamic and consistent leading to weaknesses in the system," the Mariara report on students welfare association adds.
The report is also before the Education committee chaired by Murang'a county Woman Representative Sabina Chege.
The team noted that the distribution of cases range from destruction of property and disruption of programmes, violent behaviour and rowdiness, assault, substance peddling, and abuse, theft and robbery, fraud and illegal arms and weapons.
According to the Mariara report, 45 students have been suspended, 20 warned while three were expelled from the university as corrective measures.
However, when he appeared before the education committee two weeks ago, Mbithi who was flanked by UoN senior managers said that the two reports were too punitive and urged the MPs to find a way out.
But the MPs led by the chairperson wondered why he would want to go against the reports commissioned by the University.
The Muriuki committee also noted that bribery of election officials and threats compromise the credibility of elections.
"Choosing Sonu officials as commissioners compromises the process “as they are hooligans and partisan”," the report says.