Regardless of the IEBC ruling on Monday over the eligibility of footballer McDonald Mariga in his quest to succeed late Kibra MP Ken Okoth, his woes are far from over.
Wafula Chebukati-led team was due to determine whether or not Mariga should represent Jubilee party in Kibra by-election after it emerged that his name wasn't in KIEMs kit.
And the DCI could now investigate Mariga's national ID card, following controversies over his real age. In the ID, which has serial numbers of people born in 90s, Mariga says he was born in 1987.
Leina Konchellah has petitioned IEBC to pronounce itself on the age issue, failing which, she says, she may move to the High Court.
In her sworn submission filed with the electoral agency, Ms Konchellah says there could be integrity issues with the documents Mr Mariga submitted to the commission.
“It is curious to note that the complainant presented a national identity card indicating his date of birth as April 1987 and further presented his Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education indicating he sat his Form Four examinations in November/December 2002,” says Konchellah.
She continues: “From the above, it means that the complainant sat his Secondary School examinations at the age of 15, which is rather unusual. And if the same is calculated backwards, it means the complainant enrolled for Class One for his primary school education at the age of three.
“This can only lead one to conclude that the complainant was either a genius at Primary School level, which brilliance abandoned him at Secondary level for him to get a mean grade of D-(minus), or there are integrity issues as to authenticity of the said documents he presented before the IEBC,” reads the submission.
Over the years, Mariga's age has been a controversy. In a past interview, his father Noah Wanyama said that he was born around 1981.
Some other reports indicate that he was born in 1984. Mariga became the first Kenyan to win Champions League with Italian giants Inter Milan in 2010.