The Commission for University Education (CUE) has written a letter to Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i to have Thika-based, Gretsa University, stripped off their authority to offer degrees.
A quality audit and inspection conducted in January found the University, where Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho took his second bachelor’s degree, to have committed malpractices by awarding students marks from entirely different units to help them pass in their failed units.
The Commission also accused the University of awarding degrees to students who did not meet the minimum set instructional hours.
In the letter quoted by the Standard, CUE urged Dr Matiang'i not to renew the University’s letters of Interim Authority.
The Commission also recommended for the same action to be taken against two other institutions including Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology located in Nairobi and The East African University based in Kajiado.
The malpractices, however, were unrelated to the controversy surrounding the Mombasa Governor following allegations of forging his KCSE result slip to gain entry into University.
Regarding Joho's degree, the University Vice Chancellor Kuria Thuo explained that he admitted the ODM deputy leader for a commerce program based on the strength of the degree he was awarded in a Ugandan institution.
On Wednesday Joho was interrogated for close to two hours at the Coast Regional Police Headquarters over allegations of forgery.
He was required to explain whether he was linked to a result slip showing that he graduated from Serani Secondary school with a grade of C+ in 1992.
The Governor, however, disowned the C+ examination slip, declaring that he had scored a mean grade of D- in his KCSE.
Read more: Joho Questioned at Coast Regional Police Headquarters in Mombasa
