The council is particularly not happy that the CS appointed Prof Mohamed Jama (Finance, Planning and Development) Prof William Ogara (Human Resource and Research) and Prof Lydia Njenga (Production and Extension). The council had earmarked Prof Isaac Mbeche, Prof Stephen Kiama and Prof Madara Ogot to fill these positions. The regulations guiding the appointment of vice chancellors and deputy vice chancellors affords the CS discretion in appointing anyone of the three persons nominated to a vacant position taking into account scoring sheets, gender considerations and diversity. Why then should the university council be uncomfortable when anyone is appointed from a list they had sieved through? The wisdom behind submitting three names was created to give the CS the latitude to rationalise any biases that may have been occasioned by a partisan university council.

Source: Standard Digital February 05, 2019 05:37 UTC