Round 1 of Nairobi VC fight. Professor Kiama delivers TKO on CS Magoha

The industrial court has quashed CS Magoha’s revocation of ProF Kiama as Nairobi VC for the time being. Notice that the presiding judge is a jeng , so tribalism is likely not a factor

What game is being played here? If the names of the finalists were first forwarded to Magoha for final decision as required by law, what other signal did the University Council receive in order to appoint Kiama, to the chagrin of Magoha? I thought he was the person that made the final decision.

Professor Kiama should show humility and accept what his boss wants. You can’t win when fighting with your boss. But with the corruption in the Kenyan courts and other institutions maybe he knows something that we don’t

Instead of acting that late he should have let it just go even if he was not satisfied. Now he will be drawn into dirty politics he cannot win, each group with its own agenda. Now he seems to be playing politics, trying to install a puppet council.

It looks like someone already answered my question about what is going on at the U of N. The author implies this is yet another proxy fight between Kieleweke and Tangatanga. Apparently Julia Ojiambo (Chair of the University Council) is Ruto Damu. I would like to believe that Prof Magoha is above such mundane political games, and would place the university issues on a higher pedestal. I am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume his decision is based on higher merit

https://www.kenyatalk.com/index.php?threads/ni-kama-kinaeleweka.136022/

You can’t run a university without the council and magoha is the one in charge of putting in place a new council, remember the other one has been dissolved…The Senate, another body that handles all academic and research matters is firmly behind magoha and mbeche so kiama should show some humility

He has not quashed just suspended the directive

in all this, Magoha is coming out as a toy that one can easily move with strings- he is a political puppet