COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli's son, Dr Lukoye Atwoli, on Thursday, resigned from his lucrative job.
Dr Lukoye quit as the Dean in the School of Medicine, Moi University based in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County.
In his resignation letter seen by Kenyans.co.ke, he cited frustrations over allowances, lack of promotions, student suffering and freeze on staff hiring.
"My conscience cannot allow me to continue observing helplessly as students suffer without reasonable expectation of a resolution caught between intransigent staff and less action than is necessary from management," he wrote.
He disclosed that many members of staff had stagnated in the same job grade despite meeting reasonable criteria for promotion.
Some of the staff who had been invited severally for interviews were turned away at the last minute, for one reason or another, which greatly demoralized them, crippling critical functions in the school.
"Even I have not been spared. I applied for the position of professor in the Department of Mental Health at the end of 2017, and to this day I have not been shortlisted or invited for an interview," he admitted.
Repeated strikes from the university's School of Medicine and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH), resulted in final year medical students losing two years before graduation.
"The past 18 months have been particularly trying for me, with recurrent strikes affecting either the hospital or the school and often both institutions.
"I no longer enjoy the confidence and support of my faculty members and several times they have refused to attend meetings called to discuss their grievances due to my apparent association with management." concluded the frustrated academician.
Dr Lukoye is also the Vice President of the Kenya Medical Association and was recently appointed an official advisor to the World Medical Association's Medical Ethics Committee.
The Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical Department of MTRH is also the Professor is also a Visiting Scientist at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
