{"id":8536,"date":"2014-10-17T08:10:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T08:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2014-10-17T08:10:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T08:10:38","slug":"ru-students-association-rusa-aspirants-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/?p=8536","title":{"rendered":"First Ever Riara University Students Association(RUSA) &#8211; Aspirants Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><strong>FIRST EVER RIARA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ASSOCIATION (RUSA) &#8211; ASPIRANTS DEBATE BY RIARA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS INTERIM ELECTORAL COMMISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With a hotly contested, anxiously awaited RUSA elections only a week away, Riara University is setting the standards by trying something new on 16th October, 2014 Riara University Students Electoral Commission &#8211; RU \u2013 SEC held a debate for Presidential aspirants and Secretary generals aspirants. The debate held at the University grounds and moderate by Kenyan journalist Willis Raburu assisted by Quincy Kiptoo, and Camille Amolo who are both students of the university. It was a polite, somewhat halting start to a two hour marathon that gave the students a chance to judge their prospective leaders on their words and policies rather than on who they are \u2013 a rarity in a country where university politics has traditionally been intertwined with vote buying through alcoholism, and tribal identity.<br \/>\nThe University VC, Professor Kiarie Mwaura, who as well participated in the debate, welcomed and supported the idea from the students\u2019 electoral commission and acknowledged how impressive the transparency of the entire process was. The students governing council will work hand in hand with the Administration in their capacity as students\u2019 leaders in the University\u2019s effort of safeguarding students&#8217; interests.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5484 aligncenter\" alt=\"debate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/debate.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"514\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRST EVER RIARA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ASSOCIATION (RUSA) &#8211; ASPIRANTS DEBATE BY RIARA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS INTERIM ELECTORAL COMMISSION With a hotly contested, anxiously awaited RUSA elections only a week away, Riara University is setting the standards by trying something new on 16th October, 2014 Riara University Students Electoral Commission &#8211; RU \u2013 SEC held a debate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sob.riarauniversity.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}