By GEORGE ORIDO
President William Ruto has appointed the Equity Bank CEO the new Chancellor of the newly minted Open University of Kenya. The President made the announcement at the Konza Technocity as he awarded it its charter yesterday.
Reacting to the appointment, Dr Mwangi said he was humbled to have been given the opportunity to offer his services as a Vice Chancellor of the fully fledged Virtual University.
“You have bestowed on me the trust to perform the function of a chancellor just when my service as the chancellor of Meru University has just ended having served from 2013 to 2023. I can assure you that I will bring the insights that I’ve learnt to this new university,” said Mwangi credited for revolutionary leadership of the Bank to reach millions of the unbanked in Kenya through innovative Bank solutions hitherto unavailable to rural and urban poor populations in Kenya.
Equity Bank has since extended similar services to the countries of Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan and Congo DRC.
As a matter of fact, Equity Bank is the second largest bank on the Congo DRC today.
The Open University of Kenya is a first in the country and is targeting many who had missed the opportunity to aquire a degree due to the competitive degree admissions in the public universities in Kenya.
The university is set to admit the first batch of the 1,700 students next month.
Degree programmes on offer include Bachelor of Economics and Statistics, Bachelor of Technology Education, Bachelor of Data Science Bachelor of Science in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics among others.
