A row is brewing between Kisumu Governor Anyang’ Nyong’o and the Kisumu-based Great Lakes University.
The institution’s administration has fallen out with the county chief who doubles up as the university's Chancellor, in what appears to be management and leadership wrangles.
The university's Vice Chancellor Prof Amadi Ndede has accused the Governor of interfering in operations of the institution.
This is after he (Nyong'o) reportedly proceeded to mediate over some arising differences between the university and former Commission for University Education Chair David Some without the knowledge of the university’s administration.
In reaction, the Vice Chancellor has dishonored Nyong’o’s letter requiring her to avail herself for deliberations on the mediation report, terming it insincere and stage managed.
“The university fraternity is not aware of any warring parties within its ranks that would call for a mediation,” her response letter to the Governor read in part, as was seen by the Standard.
“Meetings convened outside the university and not convened by the vice chancellor are deemed not to be university meetings,” it further reads, with the VC noting that since the University Senate was excluded, Nyong’o’s claims are inconsequential.
This appears to be one of the many challenges the university has been facing lately, barely 3 months after attackers vandalized property worth thousands of shillings in its Kisumu main campus.