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Joho's degree fake, say Uganda police
THE political fate of Mombasa governor Hassan Ali Joho now hangs in the balance after Ugandan authorities recommended the cancellation of a degree certificate awarded to him on February 28.
One of the qualifications for anyone to be elected government is that he or she must have at least one degree from a recognized university. According to documents availed to the Star, Joho stands to be disqualified if Kampala University which he claims awarded him a degree in Business Administration, revokes the same.
The deputy resident city commission of Kampala Zaina Muwonge has already written to the executive director of the Uganda National Council for Higher Education asking them to cancel the degree.
"This is to inform you that our investigations have revealed and confirmed that the above mentioned Hassan Ali Joho fraudulently acquired a bachelors Degree from Kampala University in Business Administration."
"Our investigations further revealed that the above mentioned Hassan Ali Joho did not attend classes, undertake any classes and or sat or passed any examinations for the said Degree Course," the letter dated June 28, 2013 reads.
The recommendation follows investigations conducted by the Uganda Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department (CIID) at the request of the Kampala Resident City Commissioner Samuel Mpimbaza Hashaka a month earlier, on May 23.
The investigations were triggered by a complaint from a Kenyan national Janet Mbete who wrote to Uganda's ministry of education in May via Kenya's ministry of Foreign Affairs alleging that Joho had forged his university certificates.
In her complaint, Mbete said it was physically impossible for Joho to have been a full time student in Kampala as he was also a full time MP "and an active businessman who was constantly traveling."
She claimed Joho's university transcripts were 'fake" and that even though they showed he was graded for an industrial attachment, there was no evidence that he attended any internship.
"There are no students in Kampala University who remember ever going to school with Hassan Ali Joho. This is most unbelievable that no student can remember studying with such a flamboyant and famous full time student," Mbete said in her letter.
She also questioned the authenticity of a letter allegedly issued by Kampala university which is among the documents that Joho presented to the IEBC when he applied for clearance to run for governor.
The letter which is dated November 30, 2012 and addressed "to-whom-it-may- concern" said Joho was due to graduate in February 2013. Joho is described as a ' well behaved and disciplined student" said the author, a Mrs Amaal Kinene Nsereko who signed off as the Kampala University dean of school of business and management studies as well as the university's quality assurance manager.
Nsereko expressed appreciation for any assistance rendered to joho "in attaining a job." It was signed by a Ms Amaal Kinene Nsereko, the dean school of business and management studies who is also the Quality Assurance Manager in KU.
"This is not a letter that a university gives to a graduating assistant minister!" she claimed. An investigations committee based in Rubanga Division of Kampala had also written to the Kampala city commissioner confirming that Joho never studied in the Kampala University's Mutundwe Campus as he had alleged.
"We have also discovered that when time for graduation came some officials at the Kampala University main campus ordered the junior staff at Mutundwe Campus to clear Hassan Ali Joho for graduation yet he did not study from there," the investigation's committee general secretary said in his letter.
The cancellation of Joho's degree has however stalled after the Uganda National Council for Higher Education claimed that Kampala University has failed to furnish it with any information regarding the degree.
"Therefore the Council is devoid of substantial evidence to prove that Mr Ali Hassan Joho pursued a course of study at Kampala University leading to the award of a degree in Business Administration," the council says in a letter to the Ugandan Education ministry permanent secretary dated July 29 reads.
Earlier this year, Joho applied to the Commission for Higher Education for recognition of his degree. The CHE through Dr Beatrice Odera-Kwach responded the following day confirming that KU and the degrees it awards were recognized in Kenya.
The letter however added a rider to the effect that the commission was not accountable for the authenticity of the certificate or the identity of the certificate holder presented for recognition or equation.
On January 29, Joho was cleared to run for the Mombasa gubernatorial seat. He also submitted a statutory declaration in which he swore he had never misrepresented information to the public or engaged in any form of dishonesty in conduct of public affairs. He also swore that he has never falsified official or personal records.
Contacted for comment yesterday, Joho refused to discuss the investigations or even confirm that he was aware of the findings. "That's your story! Do not put words into my mouth, I have said that is your story," he said curtly before hanging up.
- See more at: Joho's degree fake, say Uganda police | The Star
THE political fate of Mombasa governor Hassan Ali Joho now hangs in the balance after Ugandan authorities recommended the cancellation of a degree certificate awarded to him on February 28.
One of the qualifications for anyone to be elected government is that he or she must have at least one degree from a recognized university. According to documents availed to the Star, Joho stands to be disqualified if Kampala University which he claims awarded him a degree in Business Administration, revokes the same.
The deputy resident city commission of Kampala Zaina Muwonge has already written to the executive director of the Uganda National Council for Higher Education asking them to cancel the degree.
"This is to inform you that our investigations have revealed and confirmed that the above mentioned Hassan Ali Joho fraudulently acquired a bachelors Degree from Kampala University in Business Administration."
"Our investigations further revealed that the above mentioned Hassan Ali Joho did not attend classes, undertake any classes and or sat or passed any examinations for the said Degree Course," the letter dated June 28, 2013 reads.
The recommendation follows investigations conducted by the Uganda Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department (CIID) at the request of the Kampala Resident City Commissioner Samuel Mpimbaza Hashaka a month earlier, on May 23.
The investigations were triggered by a complaint from a Kenyan national Janet Mbete who wrote to Uganda's ministry of education in May via Kenya's ministry of Foreign Affairs alleging that Joho had forged his university certificates.
In her complaint, Mbete said it was physically impossible for Joho to have been a full time student in Kampala as he was also a full time MP "and an active businessman who was constantly traveling."
She claimed Joho's university transcripts were 'fake" and that even though they showed he was graded for an industrial attachment, there was no evidence that he attended any internship.
"There are no students in Kampala University who remember ever going to school with Hassan Ali Joho. This is most unbelievable that no student can remember studying with such a flamboyant and famous full time student," Mbete said in her letter.
She also questioned the authenticity of a letter allegedly issued by Kampala university which is among the documents that Joho presented to the IEBC when he applied for clearance to run for governor.
The letter which is dated November 30, 2012 and addressed "to-whom-it-may- concern" said Joho was due to graduate in February 2013. Joho is described as a ' well behaved and disciplined student" said the author, a Mrs Amaal Kinene Nsereko who signed off as the Kampala University dean of school of business and management studies as well as the university's quality assurance manager.
Nsereko expressed appreciation for any assistance rendered to joho "in attaining a job." It was signed by a Ms Amaal Kinene Nsereko, the dean school of business and management studies who is also the Quality Assurance Manager in KU.
"This is not a letter that a university gives to a graduating assistant minister!" she claimed. An investigations committee based in Rubanga Division of Kampala had also written to the Kampala city commissioner confirming that Joho never studied in the Kampala University's Mutundwe Campus as he had alleged.
"We have also discovered that when time for graduation came some officials at the Kampala University main campus ordered the junior staff at Mutundwe Campus to clear Hassan Ali Joho for graduation yet he did not study from there," the investigation's committee general secretary said in his letter.
The cancellation of Joho's degree has however stalled after the Uganda National Council for Higher Education claimed that Kampala University has failed to furnish it with any information regarding the degree.
"Therefore the Council is devoid of substantial evidence to prove that Mr Ali Hassan Joho pursued a course of study at Kampala University leading to the award of a degree in Business Administration," the council says in a letter to the Ugandan Education ministry permanent secretary dated July 29 reads.
Earlier this year, Joho applied to the Commission for Higher Education for recognition of his degree. The CHE through Dr Beatrice Odera-Kwach responded the following day confirming that KU and the degrees it awards were recognized in Kenya.
The letter however added a rider to the effect that the commission was not accountable for the authenticity of the certificate or the identity of the certificate holder presented for recognition or equation.
On January 29, Joho was cleared to run for the Mombasa gubernatorial seat. He also submitted a statutory declaration in which he swore he had never misrepresented information to the public or engaged in any form of dishonesty in conduct of public affairs. He also swore that he has never falsified official or personal records.
Contacted for comment yesterday, Joho refused to discuss the investigations or even confirm that he was aware of the findings. "That's your story! Do not put words into my mouth, I have said that is your story," he said curtly before hanging up.
- See more at: Joho's degree fake, say Uganda police | The Star
