Kiharu Member of Parliament Ndindi Nyoro has reacted to President Kenyatta’s conflict with the Kenyatta University over land.
Speaking during a UDA rally in Githurai, Kiambu County, the legislator claimed the President had personalized the University as a family project.
“Tutabadilisha jina ya Kenyatta University to Githurai University ndio waache kufikiria ni ya family yao,” he stated.
Nyoro becomes the latest legislator to attack the head of state over KU saga.
On Wednesday, Elgeyo-Marakwet County Senator Kipchumba Murkomen also expressed his displeasure saying public institutions should not be named after individuals.
In a Twitter post, Murkomen said some individuals tend to believe that public institutions named after their parents are part of their inheritance.
“Going forward, let’s not name public institutions after someone’s father, he or she will confuse it with family inheritance,” he said without mentioning names.
Some of the universities in the country are named after popular leaders, most of who have since passed on.
They include; Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology which has its main campus in Juja town and was named after the first president of Kenya.
It was started by the Government of Kenya in 1981 as a middle-level college called Jomo Kenyatta College of Agriculture and Technology (JKCAT)).
In early 1978, the founding father of the nation, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta donated two hundred hectares of farmland for the establishment of the college.
Kenyatta University is also named after the first president Mzee Jomo Kenyatta with the main campus located in Nairobi’s Kahawa area on the Thika Superhighway.
Moi University in Eldoret was also named after the second president of Kenya, Daniel Arap Moi.
