The whole Kenyatta University Council, led by Prof. Shem Migot Adholla, has now been dismissed.
Additionally, the group has been denied access to KU property.
This happened after the council resisted giving up a portion of the university’s territory as the State had requested.
The new council, lead by Prof. Chrispus Kiamba, chose not to accept their new position, dealing the state a setback.
The group reportedly stated to the Star that they are unwilling to engage in a brawl.
They added that even though the dismissed council is more experienced than they are academically, they are not willing to defy its judgment.
The government must now start over if it hopes to obtain the requested land, as a result of the action.
The ousted council of Kenyatta University refused to comply with a directive requiring them to turn over the institution’s title deeds.
The title deeds won’t be given to Joseph Kinyua, head of the public service, according to a statement from the council that was signed by the chair of the council, Adhola.
“We wish to inform you most respectfully, that we will be unable to accede to the request to the title deeds,” the statement reads.
This letter was a response to a previous direction from Kinyua, requesting the varsity to hand over a section of its vast land.
Kinywa in the letters had said 30 acres will go to the WHO emergency hub while some will be donated to squatters.
Another 10 acres will be donated to the Africa Centres for Disease Control.
Kinyua said 180 acres will go to the neighbouring Kenyatta University Teaching Research and Referral Hospital, which already sits on 100 acres donated by the university ten years ago.
Adhola distanced the council from the decision by the state to acquire lands.
“If the due process of the law as foresaid was followed, the university would have been able to demonstrate that it requires every inch of its current land,” Adhola said.
The council termed the directive as ‘unclear and unconstitutional’ saying they were not involved.
