New development at Moi University as MPs order forensic audit

 

A forensic audit of troubled Moi University has been ordered amid the myriad questions raised in the management of the institution.

 

National Assembly’s Public Investment Committee on Governance and Education ordered Auditor General Nancy Gathungu to do a holistic audit of the institution and avail the report within 60 days.

 

The committee has also directed that the university freeze the implementation of new projects during the audit period. The institution will also not engage in the hiring of any staff during the 60-day period.

 “The committee directs the Auditor General to do a holistic forensic audit of five years backward and give us a report within the next two months,” Bumula MP Wanami Wamboka the committee chair directed.

The development was reached after what MPs claim is an entrenched mismanagement and misappropriation in the university. University Vice Chancellor Prof Isaac Kosgey was appearing before the Wanami-led committee over 2018/19 and 2010/21 audit queries which amongst others had flagged the acquisition of the loss-making Rivertex East Africa Limited.

The university was closed last Thursday following a month-long strike by lecturers and other workers over unpaid salaries.

 

Moi University students are pleading with President William Ruto to intervene and save the institution from collapse.

 

Officials from the Moi University Students’ Organization have written to the President through Education CS Julius Ogamba, saying the varsity is on its deathbed.

 

“We are asking the President not to watch as Moi University collapses,” Muso secretary general Cornelius Kipkoech said.

 

The university is mired in Sh10 billion debt and alleged mismanagement.