Legal minds summoned over students’ ma*s failure
A parliamentary committee investigating the controversial mass failure of students at the Kenya School of Law has summoned Attorney General Kihara Kariuki, his predecessor Githu Muigai and Solicitor General Kennedy Ogeto to shed light on the matter.
Also summoned are President of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) Nelson Havi, Deans of Law schools forum chairman Moni Wekesa and Kenya School of Law (KSL) Board chairperson Fatuma Chege.
The Senate committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee has summoned Githu in his capacity as the chairman of Council of Legal Education (CLE) Board chairman.
The committee, chaired by Nyamira Senator Okong’o Omogeni issued the summonses yesterday after they skipped a session convened by the panel to discuss the cause of the failures.
The chairman adjourned the meeting prematurely after the officers were representing the institutions failed to provide satisfactory responses to the cause of the failures.
High charges
“We must invite them because we need to get to the root cause of these issues. The only way we can to do that is to talk to the top management and policy makers,” Omogeni ruled.
Before the adjournment, Mary Mutugi, representing CLE and KSL CEO Henry Mutai were at pains to explain the justification for the mass failures.
Mutugi, who represented Githu, was particularly put to task to explain the rational for charging students huge amounts for the exams only for the cash to be sent to the exchequer.
According to documents presented to the committee, CLE has sent to the Treasury Sh215 million in the last five year as ‘excess’ from students.
CLE charges Sh50,000 for normal exams, Sh15,000 for re-sit and Sh10,000 for re-mark per subject per student.
