Students of Prof Simon Gicharu-founded Mount Kenya University (MKU) took to social media to call out the excesses of the institution.
Many of them accuse MKU’s senior management of greed, corruption and mismanagement.
Kenyanbulletin.com yesterday carried an expose about an e-learning program at the institution in which the management is forcing students to learn online in a country where over 70 per cent are very poor, unstable electricity supply and most youths are jobless.
Mount Kenya University administration has directed students to pay fees during this pandemic crisis. I thought learning country wide was suspended. Just because they are offering some E-learning. Greed at peak, let the administration let the wind to cool first. #ShameMKU
— Char-lee Oddie (@CharleeOddie) April 6, 2020
In February, this blog also carried out an expose’ about a ‘sex for grades’ scandal at the institution.
https://twitter.com/honsilasnjura/status/1247039217030529024?s=20
The management is accused of diverting money meant for academic activities into funding a TV station that is collapsing known as TV47. It is KenyanBulletin.com that also exposed this greed.
https://twitter.com/OgutuKomrade/status/1247004646448795648?s=20
https://twitter.com/honsilasnjura/status/1247027077158776833?s=20
A student had sent the following facts
- Students didn’t propose E-learning, It is the administration which woke up one day and decided to impose e-learning to Students without proper consultation and implementations. To me, that’s where it all started.
- Currently Mount Kenya University has lots of KUCCPS Students, most of them who come from humble backgrounds where the parents survive on Hand to Mouth Narrative-now being that the government has banned all marketing activities and any form of crowding hustle, where does this rotten administration think parents will harvest fees from?
- If it was E-learning; it was to be free, stop maximizing profits in times of Worldwide crisis, what if the student dies of this deadly virus (God forbid)? Will you refund the fees; you’re well known for sending off your students as dogs. These administrators belong to the same jail where the corrupt are locked.
Shame on Mount Kenya University.
Why isolate those who haven’t paid school fees yet your idea was to keep learners active and occupied?
MORE
https://kenyanbulletin.com/2020/04/05/greed-in-time-of-coronavirus-the-case-of-simon-gicharus-mount-kenya-university/
