Nairobi, Sept. 2 -- Principal Secretary University Education and Research, Simon Nabukwesi has asked university students to shun radicalisation because it will ruin their academic lives.
At the same time, Mr Nabukwesi urged them to avoid alcoholism, drug trafficking and crime.
Mr Nabukwesi said radicalisation has destroyed the academic lives of many youths who are lured to violent extremism at the expense of their education and personal development.
Public universities are among critical institutions in the country where youths have been lured to join the ranks of al Shabaab militants in neighbouring Somalia.
"The students who embrace radicalisation and other crimes while at the university have a bleak future and will have themselves to...