To some, Prof Paul Wainaina, the Vice-Chancellor of Kenyatta University, is an uncompromising defender of the public university's right to its property. To others, he is an administration gadfly standing in the way of government efforts to reallocate public land to other equally important projects.
At 71, the educationist might never have envisioned himself in a public controversy, not least having to take an awkward position at odds with that of powerful people in government.
