Just days after students rejected the return of a 'self-imposed’ Vice Chancellor after his retirement, Moi University is now gripped in corruption claims after it emerged that Sh5 billion could not be accounted for by the institution management.
University Academic Staff Union (UASU) Moi chapter Secretary General Okumu Abok on Saturday disclosed that they had sent a document to EACC highlighting the gross mismanagement of funds by the institution’s top brass.
“We have a seven-page document which elucidates the problems we have been facing due to financial mismanagement and we have sent the copies to the relevant bodies. We hope action is taken fast," he said.
Expressing similar sentiments was university student leader Kipng'eno Ruto who accused the institution of failing to pay dons leading to accumulation of the monies to as much as two million per person.
"The lecturers say they have not been paid for months and some are owed up to Sh2 million in arrears. We are wondering why they are not being paid yet we have paid fees," Ruto said.
Abok further warned the institution could further plunge into more crisis if the alleged rot in its top office was not dealt with as a matter of urgency.
"Moi University is on the verge of plunging deeper into a management crisis and needs urgent intervention from government and other stakeholders. We engaged the council over these issues and among its resolutions was to send Prof Mibey on terminal leave, but it has allowed him to return on unknown grounds," he said.
Recently, the University was caught in a management confusion after retired Vice Chancellor Prof Richard Mibey came back to occupy his former office even after another Vice Chancellor had been deployed in the office.