Education CS Fred Matiangi. [Photo/SoftKenya]
Vice chancellors who have misappropriated university funds should prepare to go to jail.
Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i said the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) had been invited to investigate all crimes committed in universities.
He said a lot of ‘bad things’ had happened in universities and noted that most of them border on criminal activities that can sustain court charges.
“We (universities management) have made bad decisions in the past. We will be faithful to the law. We will co-operate with EACC as investigations are done. Everyone will carry their cross,” said Dr Matiang’i. The CS said the Government could no longer “live with the kind of wastage and corruption that thrives in our universities.”
“We can no longer deal with these. Wastage is too high,” he said. Addressing top university management this week, Matiang’i said the ministry has been receiving many bad reports about financial mismanagement by universities.
“One thing that Prof Suda (Collete, Higher Education PS) and I are tired of is the number of reports we read from universities,” he said. He cited rampant opening of satellite campuses as one area where abuse of public funds took palace.