A fresh controversy has emerged after Kiambu Governor William Kabogo filed a suit alleging Kabete MP Ferdinand Waititu is not the Clifford Ndung'u Waititu named in his academic papers.
Kabogo said in a suit on Monday that "Ferdinand Ndung'u Waititu, whose birth was registered on January 4, 1980, cannot be the same person as Clifford who sat CPE at Mbagathi Primary in 1975."
Waititu applied for change of name in the run-up to the 2013 general election.
He changed his name from Ferdinand Ndung'u Waititu to Ferdinand Clifford Ndung'u Waititu.
Kabogo claimed the MP changed his name in 2013 to acquire all academic papers needed to vie for the gubernatorial seat.
Waititu contested for Nairobi gubernatorial but lost to the incumbent Dr Evans Kidero of ODM.
Kabogo added that Waititu should be charged with identity theft and barred from contesting for any public office for breach of the penal code and gross violation of the constitution. He also argued that Waititu "does not have any qualification past primary school education and that he did not go to India for higher education".
Waititu, however, maintains he was in Panjab University, SGGS College from 1985 to 1988, where he graduated with second class honours upper division in Bachelor of Commerce.