The Directorate of Criminal Investigations has labeled Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja a criminal who is part of an international criminal syndicate.
According to a report that appeared on the Daily Nation, Sakaja was facing possible arrest on Thursday night.
This is after the DCI concluded that he was a suspect in an international criminal syndicate.
The daily quoted DCI boss George Kinoti saying that Sakaja and officials of Team University in Uganda, where the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) candidate for the Nairobi gubernatorial race claims to have acquired a degree, are suspects in an international organised crime syndicate.
“We will not surrender our capital city to frauds. We will involve all international agencies in investigating and prosecuting anyone involved in academic fraud,” Kinoti was quoted by the Daily.
The daily further reported that “the dramatic escalation of a row over Mr Sakaja’s eligibility to vie for Nairobi governorship apparently followed the intervention of Ugandan Education minister, Janet Museveni, who reportedly sent government officials to seek evidence of Sakaja’s time at the institution.”
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Apparently, the officials havr demanded evidence of Sakaja’s admission letter, date of admission, proof of payment of tuition fees, and proof of coursework done.
Sakaja faces a three-year jail term if a court finds that he forged his academic degree certificate and transcripts.
“Any person who forges any document or electronic record is guilty of an offence which unless otherwise stated, is a felony and he/she is liable unless owing to the circumstances of forgery or the nature of the thing forged some other punishment is provided, to imprisonment of three years,” the daily quoted Section 349 of the Penal Code.
