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Masinde Muliro don loses case on 'professor' title wrangle

Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. [Courtesy]

Efforts by a university lecturer to claim the title of “professor” based on an error on his letter of appointment has been thwarted by the court.

Justice Stephen Radido ruled that since Charles Chunge did not have the qualifications for the position of professor in 2015, the court was unable to buy his argument that the reference to him being a professor in the offer letter was sufficient to bestow upon him the position of Executive Dean, School of Medicine.

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