Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja ( Photo Courtesy).
Embattled Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja can breathe a sigh of relief after the High Court declined to stop the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission from his name on the Nairobi Governor ballot paper ahead of the August 9 general election.
In a landmark ruling on Friday, Justice Anthony Mrima okayed the IEBC to print ballot papers with Sakaja’s name even as the case on the beleaguered senator’s degree saga continues.
The ruling comes as a reprieve for the embattled senator whose academic qualifications has been a matter of drama and controversy.
On Thursday, the Commission for University Education formally revoked Sakaja’s degree from Team University, Uganda saying that the UDA gubernatorial candidate for Nairobi County, had not fully convinced the government agency that he indeed attended the said institution and graduated as he had claimed.
But while speaking during an interview on Friday morning, Sakaja alleged that the decision by CUE to revoke his degree was politically motivated even as he insisted that he will be on the ballot come the August 9 general election.
It was during that interview that Sakaja dusclised that he never graduated from the University of Nairobi where he was studying for an Actuarial Science degree, saying that he lacked school fees.
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