Billionaire businessman and founder of Mount Kenya University (MKU) Prof Simon Gicharu is on spot over Sh42, 000 his institution owes a student.
Kepha Gathata, a student at Technical University of Kenya (TUK) is contemplating suing Gicharu and MKU for refusing to pay back fees he paid in September 2021 but the university refused to process his interfaculty transfer.
Gathata moved to TUK after he successful applied for through the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service.
MKU promised to refund the fees immediately after he completed clearance in January 2022 but that has not happened 32 months later.
He has tried to follow up with the finance office and the management without success. He now wants Gicharu to be held responsible for his employees’ con games.
“Despite my repeated follow-ups, I have not received the refund. My visits to the MKU finance office have not yielded any positive results” he said.
Adding that he was told there is a scheme by some employees there to frustrate students seeking refund to drop the pursuit, then they pocket the money.
Indeed, Bigstar News received complaint from MKU former student Beatrice Wughanga Mwawasi who graduated in August 2018.
She paid school fees with excess of Sh8, 400 and when she cleared and graduated requested refund.
She pursued refund for over six years and one time he sought the help of the Ministry of Education but they could not intervene, explaining that the institution is privately owned thus there is nothing they could do.
Questions are being asked why MKU ignore issues raised by students.
