{"id":238049,"date":"2026-07-03T17:01:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-moi-university-to-cut-jobs-save-sh100mn-monthly\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T17:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:01:54","slug":"kenya-moi-university-to-cut-jobs-save-sh100mn-monthly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-moi-university-to-cut-jobs-save-sh100mn-monthly\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Moi University to Cut Jobs, Save Sh100mn Monthly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Moi University has revived plans to downsize its workforce after a court allowed it to restart a redundancy process aimed at reducing the institution&#8217;s ballooning wage bill and restoring its financial stability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Appearing before a National Assembly committee, Acting Vice-Chancellor Kiplagat Kotut said the exercise is expected to cut the university&#8217;s monthly payroll by about Sh100 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Kotut told lawmakers the university has already secured government approval and funding through the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607030381.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moi University has revived plans to downsize its workforce after a court allowed it to restart a redundancy process aimed at reducing the institution&#8217;s ballooning wage bill and restoring its financial stability. Appearing before a National Assembly committee, Acting Vice-Chancellor Kiplagat Kotut said the exercise is expected to cut the university&#8217;s monthly payroll by about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8021,6643,4688,430,12543,21413,257,7301,52950,254,5148],"class_list":["post-238049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cut","tag-jobs","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-moi","tag-monthly","tag-news","tag-save","tag-sh100mn","tag-south-africa-today","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}