IEBC’s Ruling on Sakaja’s Degree

June 19, 2022

Senator Johnson Sakaja celebrating with supporters[Photos/Courtesy].

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Sunday, June 19, 2022 –Electoral body IEBC has on Sunday June 19 dismissed a petition that was meant to bar Senator Johnson Sakaja from participating in the forthcoming general elections on the grounds of his skewed academic history.

IEBC siting in Nairobi today stated that Sakaja’s case was beyond their mandate and therefore left the task to relevant investigating agencies.

Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja(center) cleared and presented his certificate June7.

IEBC tribunal however noted that as far as they are concerned, Sakaja can still vie unless someone else with the help of detectives will challenge this through appropriate channels.

“The returning officer and his agents are not legally empowered and thus lack requisite jurisdiction to go beyond the provisions of Regulation 47 of the Elections General Regulation (2012) in authenticating a degree certificate.
“The Second respondent has no jurisdiction to investigate or otherwise ascertain the authenticity of academic certificates presented to it by political party aspirants beyond the Regulation 47. Our final order is this complaint be hereby dismissed with no cost,” the Tribunal stated.

The UDA Party Nairobi candidate’s academic papers had drawn a lot of reactions from members of the public when he contradicted himself between two universities,

Despite having stated in various earlier clips that he had never stepped out of the country for studies, it would later emerge that the Degree certificate he had presented at the IEBC for clearance was from Uganda’s Team University.

Sakaja had all along been claiming to have sat University of Nairobi UoN examinations where he also purported to have graduated in Actuarial Science.

It would however emerge that he(Sakaja) never graduated at UoN after his course work appeared scanty at the institution.

Nairobi Senator Johson Sakaja(left) with Musalia Mudavadi.

This controversy quickly led to the prestigious Nairobi-based institution deleting his name from the list of their alumni.

And despite today’s development, Sakaja is, nonetheless, required to clear himself with the Commission for University Education CUE or face criminal charges bordering on forgery.