Of fake degree
papers and drama kings
Starehe
MP Bishop Dr. Margeret Wanjiru is a distraught woman.
In
a span of one short month she has seen her political star dim in never seen
before speeds, thanks solely to her degree papers that someone somewhere decided
were not in order.
Over
the last month, the good bishop has faced the toughest time of her short
political career. Leave alone being declared illegitimately elected in 2007 and
trouncing her competitors only to silence them with a landslide win in the by
elections, this time she has been barred from contesting the Nairobi
gubernatorial seat, at least on an ODM ticket, after her degree certificates
were found to be defective.
Even
if that might be true, at least if reports from the Commission on higher education
are anything to go by, this begs the question, just why this late?
The
party could have vetted her a long time ago and declared her unfit to run!
Here, as someone whispered to me, political games have been played, and as
Kenyans are wont to say, Money has been poured!
Although
an impeccable source privy to her academic documents insinuated that she got
her Master’s degree way before her undergraduate degree, something that is
alien in the academic world, there is certainly more than meets the eye.
Bishop
Wanjiru, in her televised rebuttal said she is a proud owner of five degree papers,
2 academic and three honorary, but claims abound that the theological colleges
she attended abroad are not authorized to confer degrees.
Day of Reckoning
Last
Tuesday, the Orange Democratic Movement, a vessel that the bishop had chosen
to steer her to the governor’s seat, disqualified her from contesting, leaving
his rival and business manager Evans Kidero, to clinch the party
nomination unrivalled.
That
was her day of reckoning, the day she saw her political ambitions go down the
drain in a flash.
It
is not clear whether the bishop is vying for any other elective post.
Clifford Waititu
the drama king
Ferdinand
Waititu is made of
sterner stuff. He has been in the news for all the wrong reasons.
At
one time, he was arrested for fanning hate speech in Kayole, Embakasi after he
ordered all maasai’s to vacate the area, only to defend himself by making one
of the most freakiest excuses.
He
said that he was telling his Maasai friends that, “Masaa hii hii
wanaenda” loosely translated to mean “my friends are leaving immediately’ and as
expected tye toothless dog that is the National Cohesion and Integration Commission
bought that!
In
his latest installment of political drama, he has been on the spotlight, this
time over his degree papers.
The
papers are said to bear the names, Clifford Waititu, while his ID has Ferdinand
Waititu as his name. Fortunately, Waititu has survived all this and
even went ahead to stun his political rival for the Nairobi gubernatorial seat,
the moneyed business magnate and self made billionaire, Jimnah Mbaru, who had
been touted to have three top of the range campaign tracks, had erected three
billboards at strategic place3s and went on to lost The national alliance
ticket to Waititu, who has fashioned himself as a man of the people.
My
two pence on this, there comes a time when the truth has to set you free.
I rest my case!
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