The Supreme Court of Kenya on 17th July 2018 ordered the Engineers Registration Board of Kenya to register as graduates engineers of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) and Egerton University the Board had refused to register claiming they had not met the minimum requirements under the Engineers Registration Act.
Those students went to court in 2011 seeking the court to compel the Engineers Registration Board to register them as graduate engineers. Justice Majanja at the High Court gave the students the orders that they be registered and be paid each Kshs 200,000.00 as damages by the Engineers Board. The Board appealed to the Court of Appeal and the Court of appeal set aside the High Court’s Orders. The Supreme Court on 17th July 2018 set aside the Court of Appeal Judgment and reinstated Justice Majanja’s decision. The Supreme Court ordered the Engineers Registration Board to register the engineers in 21 days and pay each of them Kshs. 200,00.00 damages. The MMUST engineering degrees have at long last been vindicated validated by the Supreme Court of Kenya the highest Court of Kenya contrary to the Engineers Board.
The elected leaders of the Counties of the former Western Province must take this decision as a wake up call that the region must fight from all perspectives any machinations by vested interests in Nairobi, be they professional bodies to stifle the development and growth of institutions in the region like MMUST.
The universities of the region must move with haste to introduce critical professional courses now missing including law, Architecture, medicine and leading science courses as science is the driver of the modern world’s successful economies.
