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3 August 2010
Nairobi — Lecturers are pushing for the reconstitution of university councils, saying the move would help in fighting tribalism at public institutions.
The Universities Academic Staff Union national organising secretary, Mr Musalia Edebe, said the councils were partly to blame for the recruitment of vice-chancellors and principals on tribal basis.
The official was reacting to the National Cohesion and Integration Commission's recommendations that the top administration at the institutions be reshuffled to give them a national face.
Commission chairman Mzalendo Kibunjia said the universities were headed by people from the communities around them except for those in Nairobi.
Speaking over the phone on Tuesday, Mr Edebe said tribalism had become a cancer and university council members were always drawn from people within the communities where the universities were.
Mr Kibunjia said the institutions of higher learning should be the starting point in efforts to end tribalism in the country.
He said that the law restricting employment of more than 30 per cent of workers from one community would be enforced in new appointments.
