Documents tabled in Parliament reveal an ugly fight for control of Kenyatta University’s hospital escalated in 2016, the year Prof Olive Mugenda left as vice chancellor and Prof Paul Wainaina succeeded her.
Wainaina, a philosophy of education scholar who wept as he lost the battle on Tuesday, had picked the return of Kenyatta University Teaching Referral and Research Hospital to the university as the legacy of his tenure.
However, Prof Mugenda, the hugely politically well-connected crusader and who now chairs KUTRRH board, says the university was never meant to run the hospital in the first place.
She told the National Assembly Committee on Implementation that the original idea was for the hospital to be run as an independent entity.
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