A Nairobi voter has filed a case in court seeking to bar Senator Johnson Sakaja from running for the county’s top seat.
Dennis Wahome filed the petition at the High Court in Nairobi weeks after the Commission for University Education (CUE) withdrew its letter revoking recognition of Sakaja’s degree certificate from Team University.
Through his lawyer, Wahome wants to bar the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) from printing ballot papers for Nairobi gubernatorial race until the suit is concluded.
He also wants the case to be certified as urgent describing Sakaja’s degree from the Ugandan university as bogus.
“Mr Sakaja’s assertion that he is a graduate of Team University is factually incorrect, baseless and unsupported. The assertion is further contradicted by his own public declarations categorically stating that he has never attended any university outside Kenya,” Wahome argued in court documents.
Wahome further argued that Sakaja indicated that he held a degree from the University of Nairobi (UoN) in his Nomination Application Declaration Form submitted to Jubilee Party on March 9, 2017.
In another self-declaration form submitted to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission in 2017, the politician also indicated that he had a degree from the UoN.
“In both forms, there was no mention by Mr Sakaja of any other degree from any other university, including Team University. Therefore, any indication, including by the elections returning officer that Mr Sakaja was cleared on the basis of a university degree obtained from Team University, Kampala, Uganda, is highly contradictory,” Wahome said.
