Elimika Mashinani Trust (EMT), Kenya

The High Court has just stepped in on a proposed honorary degree for a sitting Governor. Kibabii University plans to confer a Doctor of Humane Letters on Bungoma Governor Ken Lusaka on 20 November. The citation credits his public service. It also credits his role in the university's growth and its 2015 Charter. COFEK asks a hard question: is this academic honour, or a benefit tied to public office? Articles 73 and 75 demand integrity and no conflicts of interest. CUE guidelines demand objective, fair selection. No nomination or vetting records have been made public. This is not an attack on honouring leaders. It is about this process, this timing and this relationship. On 31 October, Lady Justice Emily Ominde certified the matter urgent. The petition must be served within 3 days. Respondents have 5 days to respond. Mention is set for 12 November. The graduation is 8 days after that. Public trust is not decoration. 🇰🇪 #Bungoma #KibabiiUniversity #COFEK

Relief for students, parents and campuses: the lecturers' strike is set to end. A Sh20bn deal has been reached, days after the lecturers rejected the State's Sh11.96bn offer. Technical teams meet today to document the return-to-work plan. Lecture halls are about to reopen. Now make sure the deal is signed, funded and honoured, so we don't end up back here next semester #LecturersStrike #UASU

Kibabii University wants to give Bungoma's sitting Governor, Ken Lusaka, an undeserving honorary doctorate on 20 Nov. This is how Western Kenya's political class now collects "Dr" titles:
🔹 Dec 2022: Mudavadi, weeks into his job as Prime CS, honoured by @MMUST_Kenya 
🔹 Mar 2023: Wetang'ula, six months after becoming Speaker, honoured by Kibabii
🔹 Nov 2026: Lusaka, Bungoma's own governor and a powerful voice over the county Kibabii sits in, honoured by Kibabii When a university keeps honouring the very politicians who hold power over it, Kenyans are entitled to ask: is it merit, money, or pressure? Honoris Causa should honour scholars, innovators and quiet heroes, not incumbents in office. This cheapens Kibabii's degrees and every graduate who earned theirs the hard way. @KibabiiUni must withdraw this nomination and review how these awards are made @EduMinKenya @CUE_Kenya @Bettymuganda17 @HonJuliusMigos @ElimuYetuC #HonorisCausa #Kibabii #Bungoma

POLITICAL “EMPOWERMENT FORUMS” RHETORIC AS RUTO ERODES THE GAINS ON EDUCATION SECTOR … ♦️261,000 learners are unaccounted for as national exams start. ♦️ 1,233,852 sat KCPE in 2022. Only 1,048,355 are registered for KCSE this year. That is 185,497 fewer. ♦️ 1,281,210 sat KPSEA in 2023. Only 1,206,028 are registered for KJSEA. That is 75,182 fewer. ♦️ The combined gap is 260,679 learners. ♦️ The government promised 100% transition. These numbers raise hard questions. ♦️ Meanwhile, the exam machinery is under strain. Kuppet tells teachers to stay away until Knec addresses their pay. Principals want audits paused during exams. ♦️ Accountability is not optional. But neither is knowing where our children are. Who are the 261,000? Where are they today? Kenya needs answers? Mr President. The buck stops with you

The @nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to Chancellor Merz, in one line: “There's nothing to regulate if the industry doesn't thrive." That's Europe's whole problem in few words. Brussels writes the rulebook for industries it never built, then wonders why the champions are American and Chinese. Build first. Win first. Then regulate what you actually have #AI #Germany #Europe #RegulatingAI #EU

In Ruto's Kenya, the pockets are bottomless; ♦️ Sh1.2B for sugarcane bonuses. Sh10B for tea factories. 50,000 teacher promotions. Endless "empowerment forums." Campaign season is generous. ♦️ But for university lecturers? A 3% raise over 4 years. Sh9.76B for an entire CBA. That is an insult. ♦️ The strike is in its second week. 661,832 students are stranded at home. ♦️ Parents are still paying rent, food and fare for lectures that aren't happening. ♦️ Treasury was invited to the talks. Treasury didn't show up. They had better priorities — more debt? ♦️ Last year it was a 49-day shutdown. This year, the same script. ♦️ There is money for politics. There is no money for knowledge. ♦️ We are killing tertiary education. Deliberately. And a country that starves its universities is mortgaging its future. #LecturersStrike #FundUniversities

Ayn Rand's 1957 warning still fits Kenya: when producers need permission from people who produce nothing, when favors earn more than work, and when honesty becomes a risky sacrifice, a society is in trouble. Tenders, licences and regulators are where we fix it. No wonder, we talk more about Oscar Sudi and forget Prof Ali Mazrui #TheTroubleWithKenya

Dear @TextBookCentre: Now that you confirm you are selling bad @HP cartridges, why are you asking that the replacement takes 5 days? @ACA_Kenya @KECOPAC_KE @Cofek_Kenya @HPSupport @HPdeals @HP_PC_JP

Good development for @MountKenyaUni Law School

Dear @EduMinKenya: Please investigate this head teacher @KIMANIICHUNGWAH @EACCKenya @elimikatrust @HonJuliusMigos #EducationKE

Under Edward Kinyua, EPRA is in good hands. Great choice. @OpiyoWandayi & @WilliamsRuto — you got it right. Meritocracy has won! @koske_felix

THE FAILING UNIVERSITY EDUCATION UNDER KENYA KWANZA REGIME … 🌻Public universities owe Sh100 billion to creditors and statutory agencies, up from Sh61 billion in 2022. That's a 64% jump in four years. 🌻The 2023 funding model was sold as the cure. It hasn't worked. Students still wait on delayed or thin HELB and Universities Fund money for fees and upkeep. Lecturers are threatening another strike in seven days over an unsigned CBA. 🌻We keep treating each crisis on its own: the strike, the debt, the student hardship. It's one failure. Universities are expected to run on promises, lecturers are paid in arrears, and students are billed for a system that can't pay its own bills. 🌻Before another strike or another bailout, we need three things: a public audit of where the money went, a funding model that is actually funded, and honest numbers on what a degree costs. 🌻Our universities can't keep producing graduates while running up debt. #UniversityFunding #KenyaEducation

You can now report fake degrees, in confidence, at reportfakedegrees.co.ke to enable COFEK follow up with relevant authorities #ReportFakeDegrees @CUE_Kenya @EduMinKenya @KNQAuthority @KUCCPS_Official @UASUKenya @KuppetKenya @KenyaKnut @elimikatrust

If the Supreme Court, under CJ Emeritus Maraga, could annul an entire presidential election, what makes anyone think a fake PhD is untouchable? 🌻Annulling a forged degree is a walk in the park. Once it's established that the @MurangaUni PhD has no basis and no legs to stand on, it will fall. It must fall 🌻This is no longer a question of if — it's a question of when #ReportFakeDegrees #FidellityToLaw

The 'Fake Degrees' club has a new member, and the roll call is getting embarrassing. 🌻From Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa (Engineer, and @EngineersBoard member, allegedly) to Mombasa County Assembly Clerk Salim Juma (PhD holder, that never was). 🌻The pattern is sickening: Leaders post elaborate congratulatory messages, only for universities to issue brutal clarifications. 🌻JKUAT rejected the King of Fakes Barasa. UoN has now disputed Juma. How many more 'honorary' degrees are actually just photocopies? We are led by a class of leaders who have mastered the art of the shortcut, faking qualifications to secure power. 🌻The casualties of this intellectual fraud will keep rising until we demand real accountability. A title is worthless if the integrity behind it is non-existent. #FakePapers #ReportFakeDegrees

UPDATE: The "King of Fakes" sat his KCSE at Kimilili Boys Sec School in 2000. He scored a C Plain. He was not eligible for direct entry into undergraduate study 🌻Then he doctored the slip. And the certificate. Suddenly: B Minus. 62 points. Mean grade 7.75. 🌻The math? 62 ÷ 8 = 7.75. Clean. KNEC's B- band is 7.5–8.49. 7.75 sits right in it. 🌻The forgery is flawless. The original grade isn't. 🌻He had a Senior Principal Magistrate in Bungoma to certify the fake copy of KCSE certify on May 5, 2007 #ReportFakeDegrees

How was this possible - Mr “I am very educated my friend”?

Dear @KNECKenya, This KCSE result slip was sent to me directly by the bearer. There is no certificate to accompany it. Allow me to invoke provisions of Article 35(1) of the Constitution to request that you kindly, but urgently, confirm the following: ✅Is the bearer the rightful holder of Index Number 602610/021? ✅Is that index number registered to school code 602610, Kimilili Boys Sec School? ✅Does KNEC ever print initials, in place of full names, on its certificates or result slips? I ask because credible information indicates the bearer left the school in Form 2 or 3, over unpaid fees. He is then said to have had a short stint at Kibingei Sec School. He later left for Nairobi. Kenyans deserve clarity. The public record must be straight. Thank you (Signed) @HonJuliusMigos @EduMinKenya @CUE_Kenya @MountKenyaUni @MurangaUni @DiscoverJKUAT