EACC sleuths visit Tom Mboya primary in probe on Joho's education

Tom Mboya Primary School in Tononoka, Mombasa, which EACC detectives visited on April 4, 2017 as part of investigations into Governor Hassan Joho's academic background. /ELKANA JACOB
Tom Mboya Primary School in Tononoka, Mombasa, which EACC detectives visited on April 4, 2017 as part of investigations into Governor Hassan Joho's academic background. /ELKANA JACOB

EACC detectives visited

Tom Mboya Primary School in Mombasa on Wednesday as part of investigations into Hassan Joho's academic background.

In a letter dated March 28, the anti-graft agency asked the school for documents and information that will facilitate the probe into the Governor.

EACC deputy CEO Michael Mubea sought to know if Joho was enrolled at the school, particulars of the enrollment, if he sat KCPE there and the grades he attained.

Mubea also asked the headmaster of the Tononoka school for the Governor's leaving certificate and any other relevant information.

The deputy CEO said officers Tipape Loomu and Abraham Lorot would collect the documents "on or before April 5 and record statements from relevant officers if any".

Joho has been under attack following a series of reports that he allegedly used fake documents to make an application to the University of Nairobi in 2009.

The claim is that Joho presented a forged 1992 examination result slip with a C+ mean grade. This was for a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Human Resource Management.

A letter from Knec purported that the county boss' KCSE papers were forged.

Acting chief executive Mercy Karogo said in a letter to the DCI Ndegwa Muhoro, said they proved that the documents presented to the council were fake.

The Governor denied the claims while Serani Secondary School principal Abbas Juma confirmed he was a bona fide student at the school.

He said Joho was at the school from February 1990 and left in November 1993, having successfully sat his KCSE exams.

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