Financially struggling Moi University has a new council.
This follows the revocation of the appointment of the current council, which Dr Humphrey Kimani was chairing.
Who is the new Moi University Council chairperson?
In the latest gazette notice dated January 17, 2025, seen by Uasin Gishu News, Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba named Prof Noah Midamba as the new Moi University Council chairperson.
The CS also appointed four new council members. The four are Prof Ronald Wasike, Dr Mercy Nyambura Kanyari, Dr Edward Sambili and Anne Weceke Makori.
“The appointments of Dr Humphrey Kimani Njuguna, Prof Clara Samiji Momanyi, Christopher Khaemba, Eusila Jepkosgey Ngeny and Susan Amlango are revoked,” Ogamba said in the gazette notice.
According to the notice, the new Moi University Council chairperson and members will serve for three years.
Their appointment is effective January 17, 2025.
What Ruto said about Moi University
Changes to the Moi University council come barely a week after President William Ruto promised to address the financial challenges facing the Uasin Gishu-based university.
He spoke during a development tour of the county.
“We will put in place an efficient management team and allocate it enough resources so that Moi University can thrive like the other public universities,” Ruto said while at Ngeria Technical Training Institute in Kapseret Constituency, Uasin Gishu County, when opened the college on Friday, January 10, 2025.
Also read: Ruto Promises to Address Challenges Facing Moi University
The university has in recent years faced disruption of learning due to regular workers’ industrial action over unpaid salaries and failure to remit their statutory deductions.
Currently, the staff are back on strike after the university failed to honour a return to work-agreement signed on November 30, 2024.
