Sunday, January 26, 2025 - For years, the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) has been ensnared in dysfunction with a litany of grievances spanning its numerous campuses.
From egregious mismanagement and brazen
corruption to flagrant abuses of power, the institution has become a microcosm
of institutional decay.
Despite
repeated exposés and impassioned calls for reform, this cycle of impunity
appears to persist, and the latest scandal emanating from KMTC Bondo serves as
a damning indictment of the entrenched malaise.
At the
epicentre of this unfolding debacle is a male lecturer, the Head of the
Department of Clinical Medicine, whose alleged transgressions epitomize the rot
festering within the institution.
Disturbing
reports of academic coercion and outright intimidation have emerged, with
female students alleging that they are subjected to unwarranted advances under
the spectre of failing grades.
Male
students, too, are not spared, as the lecturer allegedly uses a network of
informants to monitor and punish those who form relationships with their female
peers.
The
situation has escalated to the point where final-year students now face the
grim prospect of being barred from sitting for their qualifying exams as a
punishment meted out under the guise of failing mock exams, which are
reportedly marked by the same lecturer.
This is
not an isolated incident but the latest in a long line of grievances that have
plagued KMTC campuses across the country.
"Hi Nyakundi. Hello Mkuu. I want to reveal a number of issues that students are undergoing at KMTC campuses. Of great interest, let's start with KMTC Bondo.
"A male lecturer who happens to be the
HOD of the Department of Clinical Medicine has been feasting on female students,
taking advantage of them and threatening to make them fail exams if they
decline his advances.
The same lecturer has
installed covert students who report to him any case of male students having
a relationship with the female students. Whenever any issue comes up, he
threatens them and makes them fail.
Recently he threatened male final-year students that he would make them pay for disrespecting him by ensuring they don't sit for their final exams next month!
How? By ensuring they fail their MOCK exams. Imagine KMTC Bondo makes students go through a MOCK exam weeks before final qualifying exams.
Two students have approached me and explained their predicament. They have been informed that they won't sit for their final exams in 2 weeks for failing MOCK!
And guess what? Marked by the same lecturer. He is said to have 'resuscitated' other students who have been loyal to him but who had failed.
My appeal is for a quick solution to this group of students who are in danger of missing their FQE in 2 weeks due to unacceptable behavior by the lecturer. In other words:
Justice must be served.
Imagine a student who has been passing his exams and is now revising for his
final exams to be told he won't sit for the papers.
We need an investigation by
independent bodies to ascertain the claims and ensure justice has been served
to them."
The Kenyan DAILY POST.
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