NTV on Wednesday exposed a Nairobi-based billionaire who allegedly faked his academic papers in order to acquire a degree that would have allowed him to run for the Kiambu gubernatorial seat.
Bishop David Kariuki Ngari, popularly known as Gakuyo (borrowed from his multi-billion firm Gakuyo Real Estate), had announced that he would be seeking the Jubilee ticket in the race to replace Governor William Kabogo.
The investigative report established that in anticipation of the requirements needed to qualify for governor, Gakuyo started a process of obtaining a degree and even obtained papers that appeared to have been forged.
They further reported that the bishop-turned-politician submitted a primary school certificate to the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), indicating that he had sat his Certificate of Primary Education (CPE) in 1983.
However, the NTV team showed that the certificate had glaring spelling mistakes and had an index number that did not match the school indicated.
Upon checking the class list for Munyu Primary School where Gakuyo reportedly obtained the certificate, they explained that his name was not among the 76 pupils who sat for the 1983 exam.
NTV investigative reporter Dennis Okari also reported that the leaving certificate awarded to Gakuyo had been issued in 2004 – 21 years after he had left school.
Despite the anomalies and the fact that he did not provide any proof of secondary education, Gakuyo was admitted at JKUAT and allowed to pursue a certificate in County Governance at their Westlands Campus, even performing well in his first semester.
However, his dream of continuing with an Executive Master of Science in Governance and Leadership was cut short after the registrar at JKUAT’s Westlands Campus deregistered him for failure to provide any proof of attaining secondary school education.
Here is the video, courtesy of NTV:
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