Several institutions have started admitting first-year students.
During admission, students are required to buy some items for their upkeep.
This has given business people the opportunity to carry out their work near the institutions.
The sellers with the requirements, tend to charge more for their products without considering the consumers.
Due to the submissive nature of the first-year students and their parents, they accept anything that they are told is a requirement without questioning the sellers.
Parents and guardians are stretching their pockets to acquire the required items for upkeep.
The institution offers accommodation for students to show that students come from different places, hence they have to stay at school either inside or outside the institution as preferred by the student.
It is so alarming that the normal amount paid as rent by students has doubled without any notice!
Even after admission, merchants will still sell products at higher rates to students.
With the law of demand, the private sector is using this in the wrong regime to benefit themselves as much as an individual has invested money in the business.
Even as the country’s inflation rates have grown, it doesn’t mean that those individuals should pay more to access the products.
Manipulating the students has led to fear due to the high cost of living and they have to concentrate on their studies.
We should not stare at this take by the private sector and the issue needs to be addressed.
With help from the student council and the authority, students should be helped from this bondage.
This clearly shows that the consumers are manipulated by the sellers.
The private sector should stop taking advantage of the students.
Those individuals who are involved in this should stop and regulate the cost of products.
Moreso, they should be charged.
This calls for government intervention to protect the consumer’s needs.
Student at Rongo University
Edited by Kiilu Damaris
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