Mombasa governor Hassan Joho [PHOTO/kenyaten.com]
Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho has moved to explain how he worked to change the D- (minus) grade he scored in form four to a bachelor’s degree he now holds.
The governor revealed that he failed to attend school for a full year as his parents could not afford to enroll him to Form One.
According to court documents cited by the Sunday Standard, the governor sat the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam at Tom Mboya Primary in 1988 and continued to school at home for one more year.
He then joined Serani Secondary School in 1990.
“Owing to the fact that neither I nor my parents could afford or raise the fee required for me to join secondary school in 1989, I stayed out of school that year doing odd or menial jobs to eke out a living,” he said in a sworn affidavit.
Joho says that after attaining a D- (minus) at Serani in 1993, he enrolled at Kampala University for a pre-university course which allowed him to pursue a certificate course.
He pursued and obtained a certificate in business administration in 2008 and paved the way to enroll for a diploma in human resource management at the same university in 2009.
“Having satisfied the requirements prescribed by the Senate for the award of degree of bachelor of business administration, I was admitted to the degree on February 28, 2013,” he says.
Joho has attached copies of his credentials as he fights off claims that he doctored documents to be admitted for a parallel degree at the University of Nairobi (UoN).