KENYAN STYLE: UHURU VOWS TO FIGHT CORRUPTION?? "But l will not resign " Corruption reloaded.

UHURU VOWS TO FIGHT CORRUPTION??

A principal secretary nominee
is at the centre of a major university
scandal in which hundreds of
students obtained degrees in dubious
circumstances.
The nominee, Prof Japhet Ntiba
Micheni, has been council chairman
of the Presbyterian University of East
Africa (PUEA), which has been hit by a
series of fi nancial, management and
academic scandals.
Micheni, who will this week go before
the parliamentary vetting committee
to seek clearance as Principal
Secretary for Fisheries, faces an uphill
task if submissions against him are
anything to go by.
He also faces several court cases
relating to the hiring and fi ring of staff
while the university is defending suits
by suppliers and contractors over
claims running into hundreds of
millions of shillings.
During a court appearance last
Wednesday to defend a case brought
against him by a former member of
staff, the professor sought to have the
claim settled out of court.
But the most damaging of the
allegations against him is that, under
his watch, students were granted
degrees with cooked-up results
whenever unpaid lecturers withheld
results.
Details have emerged that implicate
the office of the registrar at
Presbyterian University with forging
results for students. Some have gone
on to graduate.
With no results to help assess how
students perform in order to promote
them to the next semester, the office
of the registrar has resorted to
awarding marks to students at
random in the courses taught by part
time lectures, a member of staff at the
university reveals.