Hassan Joho degree is genuine, says Kampala University VC

Kampala University Vice
Chancellor Prof Badru
Kateregga addresses the Press
at the Serena Hotel, Nairobi, on
May 18, 2014.

Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho
earned his degree from
Kampala University legitimately,
the institution's Vice
Chancellor has said.
Speaking to reporters in Nairobi
on Sunday, Prof Badru
Kateregga said Mr Joho
attended the university from
2009 to 2012.
“As far as Kampala University is
concerned, the degree awarded
to Mr Hassan Ali Joho is
bonafide, lawful and authentic.
(It) was genuinely awarded and
Kampala University Senate
cannot and will not recall,
revoke or cancel an award that
it deems to be valid, authentic
and genuinely awarded,” he
said.
The Uganda National Council
for Higher Education has
doubted the validity of Mr
Joho's degree.
“There was no clear evidence
that academic due process was
followed from admission to
graduation regarding a
Bachelor of Business
Administration degree (Human
Resource Management option)
awarded to Mr Hassan Ali Joho
by Kampala University,” the
council said in a resolution.
NCHE has said that Mr Joho
may not have been in Uganda
to physically undertake studies,
raising doubts about how the
university awarded him the
degree.
It was acting on the
recommendations of a
committee chaired by Mr S.H.
Nsubuga, which claimed that
Mr Joho “fraudulently obtained
the said qualifications from
Kampala University” and that
he “neither qualified for
admission to the degree
programme nor was he
subjected to the due process”.
However, Prof Kateregga
questioned the Council's
authority on the matter. “The
law does not require them to
recognise any degree. The duty
of National councils is to
accredit programmes, once the
programmes have been
accredited; the question of
degree awarding is the
question of university senate,”
he said.
The Constitution requires a
governor to be a degree holder.