Good morning UASU members.
The Media announcements that were made by the UoN Council and purported student leaders are very disturbing but curiously raise the following issues as the University is on recess and students are not in session:
Here are pertinent questions
- How did the University Council serendipitously find an audience of students just as they wanted to issue a statement on the suspension of the VC?
- Where were these students assembled and waiting as the Council deliberated on the suspension of the VC?
- Who is responsible for mobilizing students on recess to attend a press conference at a precise time in great court after Council deliberations to cheer as the Council Chair issues a press conference?
- Since UNSA elections were concluded one month before the recess period and a new set of student leaders were chosen, who are these same faces purporting to be student leaders?
- How are these same faces always coincidentally ready to issue statements anytime and in whose direction are they doing this?
- Who is responsible for ordering riot Police to be deployed in the University Towers and what intervention were these Police meant to do?
The University is a place of free speech and everyone is entitled to be heard. But let us not turn the University into a circus. Brains not brawn is what rules the University. We settle our differences through facts, we respect each other even if we differ in opinion.Prof Amukowa Anangwe as the Council chair has failed to give leadership to the Council that was declared illegally constituted in a court ruling by Justice Ngaah. Prof Anangwe is seemingly hostage to one Mr Brian Ouma who he appointed to a non-existent office of Chief Operations Officer. Curiously, Mr Ouma has integrity questions regarding his academic papers, a proven fact from internal University memos. The fact is, none of the positions Mr Ouma holds at the University have ever been competitively advertised. At the direction of Prof Anangwe, Mr Ouma attends and directs many Council meetings, a strange and unknown precedent that goes against University statutes. In some instances, the legal officer, one Mr Collins Omondi has issued summons for Council meetings many times without the knowledge of the Vice Chancellor who is the Secretary of the Council and the mandated officer as stipulated in University statutes. The University is bleeding, is hurting and it is time the circus came to an end. Any perfunctory debates are unnecessary. Let the salaries of University Staff be paid first. Lastly, let the rule of law reign.
Dr Maloba Wekesa Chapter Secretary UASU-UON