{"id":114842,"date":"2025-05-09T11:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T11:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/inyangala-denies-knowledge-of-council-meeting-that-ratified-uon-appointments\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T11:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T11:03:28","slug":"inyangala-denies-knowledge-of-council-meeting-that-ratified-uon-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/inyangala-denies-knowledge-of-council-meeting-that-ratified-uon-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Inyangala denies knowledge of Council meeting that ratified UoN appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, May 9 \u2014 Higher Education Principal Secretary Dr Beatrice Muganda Inyangala has accused University of Nairobi Council Chairperson Prof Amukowa Anangwe of usurping the powers of the university\u2019s governing body by issuing unauthorized appointment letters for key leadership positions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a damning statement released Friday, the PS denied knowledged of any University Council meeting convened to deliberate or approve the appointments of Prof Bitange Ndemo as Vice Chancellor and Prof Francis Mulaa as acting Vice-Chancellor in Ndemo\u2019s absence and substantive Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Principal Secretary, State Department for Higher Education sits on the University of Nairobi Council. We can therefore firmly confirm that no Council meeting [was] ever convened to discuss and make decisions on appointments at the University of Nairobi,\u201d Inyangala asserted.<\/p>\n<p>The PS said the actions of Prof Anangwe were not only irregular but amounted to a blatant takeover of powers reserved for the full Council and a violation of the Universities Act, 2012.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2025\/05\/moe-vows-unspecified-action-against-uon-council-chair-over-vc-appointment\/\">MoE vows unspecified action against UoN Council Chair over VC appointment<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Ministry pointed out that under Section 35(1)(a)(v) of the Act, a Council makes appointments to top positions at public universities in consultation with the Cabinet Secretary and through a competitive process overseen by the Public Service Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Inyangala emphasized that the UoN Coucil neither consulted nor informed the ministry of any such process and described the appointments as \u201cpurported,\u201d signaling that they hold no legal standing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese egregious violations of the law shall not be condoned and will form the basis for appropriate action in due course,\u201d she added, suggesting follow up action.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry reaffirmed the status of the current acting leadership, led by Prof. Jesang Hutchinson as Vice-Chancellor, and urged adherence to legal and governance frameworks in managing public universities.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, May 9 \u2014 Higher Education Principal Secretary Dr Beatrice Muganda Inyangala has accused University of Nairobi Council Chairperson Prof Amukowa Anangwe of usurping the powers of the university\u2019s governing body by issuing unauthorized appointment letters for key leadership positions. In a damning statement released Friday, the PS denied knowledged of any University Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}