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Locals want Kaimosi University VC Prof Nandi out over Corruption, nepotism and general mismanagement of the University

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Vihiga county locals drawn mainly from around KAFU University are once again up in arms calling for the immediate removal of Prof Nandi as the University VC.

Prof Nandi who joined Kaimosi from Masinde Miliru University in 2013 has been at the helm  ever since which has irked the locals.

Kaimosi University received a charter in June last year from the then president Uhuru Kenyatta making it a fully fledged university but is still among the few  currently operating without substantive chancellors alongside Moi, Kibabii, Kabianga, Rongo, Tom Mboya, Karatina.

Prof Nandi must go!
Prof Nandi who has served as the institution’s head for over 22 years now has become the subject of public outcry over his style of leadership and general mismanagement of the university.

“Prof Nandi is singlehandedly leading our university into ruins. He has cut ties with the church which sponsored the university by donating the land that the institution sits on. Nandi has employed a divide and rule approach to help him further his dictatorial tendencies. Look at how he conducts his tendering process? He does it in a skewed manner with a preferred individual in mind. Most of the people he has assigned dutiesy are actually his blood relatives. Locals are irked because even the simplest tasks that locals can easily undertake are outsourced thus negating the very purpose of having this institution in their midst”  Mr Cyrus Lidwaji lamented.

Local leaders have also joined the bandwagon that is calling for the immediate removal of Prof Nandi. Hon Nixon Butiya himself a former MCA and parliamentary aspirant in 2022 has called on the education minister Dr Ezekiel Mochogu to expeditiously look into this matter.

“We want to state here and now that Prof Nandi  has overstayed his welcome here at the university. As local leaders we cannot sit pretty as he mismanaged our university. We are actually irked by the ministry’s decision to have the out of favour VC shortlisted yet he has a case pending against him. We are calling upon the William Ruto administration to move quickly and reign in on the rogue VC who is driving our university in the wrong direction.” added Butiya.

Nepotism is Prof Nandi’s middle name.

On nepotism, Prof Nandi is being accused of hiring close friends , relatives and proxies to strategic positions at the university.

“Prof Nandi is running this university like a private entity. He never listens to anybody apart from himself. Out of 400 staffs at the university, 107 are directly his relatives while the rest are sourced from out of the county.Locals are not reaping the fruits of having the university in their midst. We therefore support the locals in their noble quest of seeking the removal of Prof Nandi. We don’t have any preferred candidate but Nandi must go! said Hon Collins Ayugu Banja ward MCA.

Petition to have Prof Nandi removed.
The community around Kaimosi University has again moved to have Prof Nandi removed.

A petitioner one Mr Wilhite Khoyi has petitioned the EACC to investigate  and find  Prof Ñandi unfit to hold office as VC KAFU.

Petition against Prof Jack Nandi.

A detailed petition seen be members of the fourth estate paints a horrendous picture of the said Prof with nepotism, abuse of office and  corruption taking center stage.

At one point the besieged Prof is accused  of hiring his sister in-law,cousin, nephew and girlfriend to strategic positions at KAFU.

Early this morning, a section of the agrieved locals from Vihiga escorted the petitioner to the PSC offices on Harambee Avenue to compel PSC to expunge Prof Nandi’s name from those short listed

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