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OPEN LETTER TO THE VICE CHANCELLOR





PROFESSOR MARY WALINGO



Maybe some will love to call you ‘mother’ others our ‘mother’, but for me am not interested in giving you funky motherly titles that l think you do not deserve. I prefer to address you with your official name or title, Professor Mary Walingo, The Vice Chancellor Maasai Mara University. You happen not to know me so I take this chance to introduce myself. I’m Munene A Mutwiri a communications student in third year. With due respect Madame Vice Chancellor; I’m compelled to convey my sincere disappointments with your leadership style through this open letter.

Let me start by highlighting why you do not deserve the name ‘mother’ of the school. The majority of the students in this university happen to have their own mothers. Those who are unfortunate not to have one, they have their guardians, those with non-have their girlfriends as their ‘mothers’. Those who don’t have either have God as their ‘mother’. And even those who are unfortunate enough not to believe a ‘mother’ in God, they happen to have themselves to love, to care, to cherish and to have a future to believe in. with all that I have highlighted, put together with the pathetic nature of your leadership; it’s unfortunate for a student to associate this leadership style as kind of a 'motherly love'. 

I am one person who believes that the buck stops with the one sitting at the helm of leadership. During my stay as a student here, I have had a couple of disappointments raging from disloyal women, poor standards of studies, and the general shortcomings of life. But with all that, the biggest disappointment came directly from you. As a young man full of energy and aspirations in life, you delayed my admission in campus by slapping me with a long holiday even before I got admitted to undertake my undergraduate studies. Those are four months of my life that you delayed me from achieving ultimate success of which you have done less to help recover the delay. Instead, you have added an extra year to delay me in pursuing my dreams. It’s due to these delays and disappointments that I feel ashamed to call you ‘mother’. It’s a big shadow that you have cast into my life and I’m not willing to forgive you soon. I feel disappointed and feed up with your leadership.
AGREEMENTS THAT NEVER BENEFIT COMRADES
 

I’m not saying you have done nothing since your appointment. In fact you have risen to the occasion. With your frequent flights abroad combined with your aloofness in student leadership affairs and how good you are at shifting blame; its clear how of a failure your leadership has turned out to be. I was the first student to question the purchase of a 12 million vehicle to be used for your own comfort at the expense of the student’s welfare. (Check my blog of Saturday 19th September 2015. 
[munenependragon.blogspot.co.ke/2015/09/its-wrong-to-say-we-are-world-class.html?m=1]   ………. As a communications student, I’m most affected with your leadership. The most you have done is fly off to china and Belgium to sign off bilateral agreements that never seem to benefit the majority of the common comrades.

During your reign we have seen anarchy prevail and the suppression of the rights of the comrades. Democracy can never be exercised and the only good thing your administration is good at is issuing threats and intimidations to the students. You have suspended our democratically elected leaders for standing against deprivation of our rights. You have denied us fundamental  basic rights of picketing and electing an independent student leadership body. In short, you have relegated us to being small high school like babies to play around with.

FREQUENT SUSPENSION OF STUDENTS
 

I agree with majority of society. Cheating and forgery is a crime punishable by law. But with honesty can anyone claim never to have been involved in an indecent act? How many lecturers miss class without an explanation? How many lecturers forward forged class attendance lists to collect their pay? Is any action taken against them? How many of the non-teaching stuff have been punished for acting unprofessionally? Yet all we have seen is victimizations of students who happen to be victims of circumstances while leaving out there the real thieves and forgers.

Has the senate carried out an enquiry on why we have a large number of students being victims of such circumstances? NO you haven’t: because you are busy flying out to china, drawing allowances and buying yourself a vehicle worth 12 million. Depriving us our morals and eroding our beliefs in a future through education. It’s a big shame on your style of leadership.
not even jail will stop me
 

I am a vocal person and I will not be intimidated by anyone. I have been thrown to jail for standing up for my rights and the court has ended up exonerating me. I have been thrown out of class for questioning the credibility of a lecturer. I fear no one. But for you, you should be filled with fear and shame for the voice of the comrades says it’s tired, tired of oppression and neglect and the voice of the comrades happens to be the voice of God.

Starting this day, I will run a campaign against the decision of the senate disciplinary committee with the blessings of the comrades. OPERATION TIBIIM. We will be asking for the immediate reinstatement of the suspended students and a new disciplinary committee be constituted with the representation of the comrades to listen to the allegations of exam cheating and exam card forgery.

Communication students will require a one on one interaction with you together with the senate management board to discuss the future of us as Maasai Mara University communication students.

  Madame Vice Chancellor as I conclude I advise you to listen to the voice of the oppressed. Take your time and listen again. A time is coming. God takes personal responsibility to fight for the oppressed and the vulnerable in society. It’s  high time for you and your administration to reconsider where your loyalties are placed. To the service of the ordinary students or to the service of the minority in positions of leadership?

Suspensions will not kill us; academic victimization will not destroy us. They only make us stronger. Stronger to fight for what we believe in.

 

#OPERATIONTIBIIM

I LOVE YOU TO LEAVE WITHOUT FIGHTING FOR YOU

 
 

 

Comments

  1. I agree with you my brother..this is a real communications student speaking out.the voice of the comrades is the voice of God..Walingo is just a mother to those in authority but nt the common comrade

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  2. I back you bro its the hgh time the truth be told.

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