KENYA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT PRIDE ITS SELF AS A PREMIER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE

IN AFRICA, HAVING STARTED WAY BACK IN 1954, IT IS ASLO WORTH NOTING THAT KIM IS ONE
OF THE FEW MIDDLE LEVEL INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE ALLOWED TO OFFER OWN INTERNAL
EXAMINATIONS BY THE GOVERNMENT AKIN TO WHAT HAPPENS IN UNIVERSITIES.

MOST LECTURERS OF THE INSTITUTE ARE A DISGRUNTED LOT, HAVING GONE WITHOUT PAY
FOR THE LAST TWENTY FIVE MONTHS, THE LAST PAYMENT WAS FOR THE MONTH OF JULY
2017, THOSE BRAVE ENOUGH TO ASK QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN DISMISSED AND REPLACED WITH
JOBLESS FRESH GRADUATE WHO JOIN AND LEAVE THE INSTITUTE AT A WORRYING TREND. IT
PAINS ME A LOT TO TEACH A CLASS OF OVER THIRTY STUDENTS HOWEVER THE INSTITUTE IN
TOTAL DISREGARD OF THE CONTRACTS REFUSES TO HONOR ITS OBLIGATIONS OF PAYING,
CLAIMING THAT THERE IS NO MONEY YET A STUDENT IS NOT ALLOWED TO ATTEND CLASSES
WITHOUT FIRST CLEARING THE FEES.

PART TIME LECTURERS AT KIM CARRY OUT THE DONKEY WORK WHILE BOSSES AND AFEW
OTHER PERMANENT STAFF SHAMELESSLY ENJOYS THE BENEFITS OF EMPLOYMENT WHILE
THEY (LECTURERS) CONTINUE TO SUFFER THE INDIGINITY OF WORKING LIKE SLAVES, ITS NOT
UNCOMMON TO HEAR OF SENIOR OFFICIALS EMBARKING ON COSTLY INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCES OR PROJECTS THAT BRINGS VERY LITTLE IF ANY BENEFITS TO THE INSTITUTE.

SO THE BIG QUESTION IS WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO TO? THE CEO DEFENDS HIMSELF BY
ARGUING THAT EVEN UNIVERSITIES ARE NOT PAYING, WHICH CANNOT GO UNCHALLEGED
BECAUSE UNIVERSITIES HAVE THOUSANDS OF PERMANENT LECTURERS AND OTHER
EMPLOYEES WHOM THEY PAY PROMPTLY WHILE KIM HAS LESS THAN A HUNDRED PERMANENT
STAFF AND ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED LECTURERS SCATTERED IN ITS OVER TWENTY BRANCHES
ACROSS THE COUNTRY, SECONDLY CLASSES ARE RELATIVELY FULL IN MOST OF THE SESSIONS.

THE ONCE REVERED AND VIBRANT INSTITUTE IS TODAY A FORMAL SHADOW OF ITS FORMAL
SELF LARGELY DUE TO MISMANAGEMENT, NO WONDER SOME PEOPLE HAVE NICKNAMED ITS
“KENYA INSTITUTE OF MISMANAGEMENT”, MOST QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED LECTURERS
WHO USED TO BE THE DARLING OF THE STUDENTS ARE LONG GONE ,THOSE LEFT ATTEND
CLASSES IRREGURARLY AND ILL PREPARED WHILE STUDENTS RARELY COMPLAIN BECAUSE
THEY WILL “PASS” THEIR EXAMS ANYWAY, SOMETIMES SERIOUS STUDENTS WHO FEEL
CONNED, BESEECH THEIR HIGHLY DEMOTIVATED LECTURERS TO ATTEND TO THEM WITHOUT
MUCH SUCCESS

ONE CANNOT FAIL TO AVER THAT THEIR IS A SERIOUS CASE OF FUNDS MISAPPROPRIATIONS
AND CORRUPTION IN THE INSTITUTE, HOW COMES THERE IS NO FINANCIAL ALLOCATIONS
FOR THE PART TIME LECTURERS, YET THEY ARE THE ONE WHO GENERATES MUCH NEEDED
FUNDS FOR THE INSTITUTE? ASLO STATUTORY AND OTHER DEDUCTIONS ARE MADE AND
NEVER REMITTED.

I CALL UPON THE RELAVANT GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY TO INVESTIGATE AND ADRESS THESE
CHALLENGES.