Joho’s Academics Evokes Laughter Among Citizen TV’s Linus Kaikai, Sam Gituku, and Yvonne Okwara on Live Show
A peep into the academic credentials of former Mombasa governor Hassan Joho happened to be the highlight of the News Gang show on Citizen TV on Thursday evening, July 25.
The program, co-hosted by a quartet of the station’s newscasters, airs on Thursdays, and in it, political matters of national importance are dissected.
On Thursday, the team, comprising Sam Gituku, Yvonne Okwara, and Linus Kaikai, convened to evaluate President William Ruto’s last batch of Cabinet nominees.
Ruto on Wednesday, July 24, named a set of ten people who would complement the others previously unveiled to constitute the new National Executive.
Conspicuous in the list were four nominees poached from the opposition’s ODM party.
They are ODM national chairman John Mbadi, who was nominated to the National Treasury Ministry, the party’s deputy party leaders, Hassan Joho (Mining and Blue Economy) and Wycliffe Oparanya (Co-Operatives), and Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi, the minority leader in the National Assembly, who was proposed to hold the Energy docket.
How Joho evoked laughter mid-Citizen TV show
Gituku charged himself with spotlighting the academic aspect of all the nominees’ suitability to hold their posts.
All was smooth until he stumbled on what was supposed to be Joho’s credentials.
While all the other nominees had citable academic backgrounds, there was supposedly a grey area in Joho’s case, as Gituku seemed to stutter.
With apparently nothing to reference regarding the former governor’s educational qualification, the journalist strived to cover the gap with the latter’s former political position, which evoked a chuckling reaction from Kaikai and Okwara.
The contagious reaction from Gituku’s colleagues left him in an awkward position, perhaps balancing between letting out his imminent laughter or holding it.
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He eventually succumbed to the pressure and laughed alongside his colleagues as the cameras rolled.
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How is Joho qualified academically?
Joho’s educational background has been controversial in the past. Some claimed that he fraudulently obtained his degree, a matter that ended up in court.
According to the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC), the former county boss took his Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination in 1993 and obtained a mean grade of D- (minus).
He is an alumnus of Serani Secondary School.
Joho, who had served in the 10th parliament, enrolled in a pre-university certificate course at Kampala University, Uganda, in 2008.
He later enrolled for a diploma course in human resource management at the same university, from which he also obtained his degree certificate.
Joho also holds another degree from Gretsa University.
He once faced charges for allegedly using a forged result slip, indicating that he got a mean grade of C+ in 1992, to enroll for a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Nairobi.
Which Ministry was Joho to head in Raila’s government?
As previously reported, the former governor would be the Cabinet secretary for Lands, had his party leader, Raila Odinga, won the 2022 presidential vote.
Oparanya was to be the National Treasury CS, and former Meru governor Peter Munya the Agriculture CS.
Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka would have been the chief Cabinet secretary.
Joho’s Academics Evokes Laughter Among Citizen TV’s Linus Kaikai, Sam Gituku, and Yvonne Okwara on Live Show
