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Embattled Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho yesterday presented himself to the regional Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) headquarters where he was grilled for close to two hours regarding alleged forgery of his Form Four academic certificate.
Joho arrived at the DCI headquarters in Mombasa accompanied by his lawyers James Orengo, Mohammed Balala and his Kilifi counterpart Amason Kingi.
The governor was escorted to the DCI headquarters gate by hundreds of his supporters who matched quietly carrying placards to demonstrate their solidarity with him.
In spite of heavy police presence, the supporters appeared to overwhelm attempts by the General Service Unit (GSU) officers to stop them at two police roadblocks placed between the governor’s office at Treasury Square and the DCI headquarters.
Meanwhile, government spokesperson Eric Kiraithe yesterday said an exercise to scrutinise academic credentials will be carried out across the country. He said the ambitions move is part of State’s bid to sanitise the education system.
He added that the ongoing scrutiny of Joho’s papers is just the beginning of a planned exercise to weed out fake certificates. “Joho’s business is not under investigations, not his D Minus (D-) but the fake certificate is what is under investigations,” he said.
Kiraithe said contrary to allegations that the President Uhuru Kenyatta of using State institutions to suppress Joho’s political ambitions, the latter’s case is purely on evidence available.
“This office wishes to state categorically that this accusation is totally false and made in bad faith,” he said. In Mombasa, after the grilling exercise, Joho addressed supporters outside his office where they concluded that the governor “has got no case to answer.”
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