President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday took a dig at Kenyan professors during a Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC) Conference held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) on Friday.

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When he rose to speak, the Head of State painted a hilarious picture of how Kenyan professors, who are widely regarded as being at the top of academic achievement, fall over each other to greet Bill Gates and other gurus who never went to university.

"Those who control the world's finances today, if you look at Steve Jobs, if you look at the Microsoft guy, Gates, there's no single one of them who went to university. But when they come here, you see our professors running towards them just to shake their hands (Wale ambao wanatawala pesa ya hii dunia yetu ukiangalia ule Steve Jobs hapo, ukiangalia huyu wa Microsoft, anaitwa nani, Gates huyu, hakuna mmoja wao alienda university. Lakini wakija hapa unaona maprofessor wanakimbia kushika mkono tu," said the president.

The remark that left the audience in stitches was aimed at driving home the point that, while education is important, it is not the only thing that can make one successful.

Uhuru sought to disabuse parents of the notion that without a university degree their children are doomed and that their future prospects will be bleak.

Steve Jobs, who succumbed to cancer, and Bill Gates never went to university but built lucrative enterprises that generate billions of dollars in revenue.