Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Does Raila have a Degree?





The question that everyone seems to be avoiding is whether the Prime Minister, Raila Odinga really posses the engineering degree he claims to have.

The PM on 25th June 2012 defended members of parliament who do not have degrees, arguing that only 1% of Kenyans have degrees. Could this be an indicator of "the guilty will have no rest"?

Apart from the many honorary degrees that we have seen him being awarded, does he really have a real degree?

To answer this question, i have copy pasted what i googled from wikipedia on Raila Odinga.

Raila Odinga was born at Maseno Church Missionary Society Hospital, in Maseno, Kisumu District, Nyanza Province on January 7, 1945 to Oginga and Mary Juma Odinga. He went to Kisumu Union Primary School, Maranda Primary and High School where he stayed until 1962. He spent the next two years at the Herder Institut, a part of the philological faculty at the University of Leipzig in East Germany.[2] 

He received a scholarship that in 1965 sent him to the Technical University, Magdeburg (now a part of Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg) in the GDR. In 1970, he graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. While studying in East Berlin during the Cold War, as a Kenyan he was able to visit West Berlin through the Checkpoint Charlie. When visiting West Berlin, he used to buy goods not available in East Berlin and bring them to his friends in East Berlin.[3]

On returning to Kenya in 1970, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Nairobi. In 1971 he established the Standard Processing Equipment Construction & Erection Ltd (later renamed East African Spectre), a company manufacturing liquid petroleum gas cylinders. In 1974, he was appointed group standards manager of the Kenya Bureau of Standards, in 1978 he was promoted to its Deputy Director, a post he held until his 1982 detention[citation needed]

The questions

We  just recently heard that Raila is an old boy from Maranda High school, the school that topped last years' KCSE.
Who was he with in that school? (mtu ajitokeze)

If you did mechanical engineering in 1970 at UON you can help us by telling us whether the PM taught you.

People normally mention their classmates, can anyone mention Raila? Who were his students?

Take note of the (citation needed) thing in wikipedia.

Let Kenyans help us clear the name of our beloved leader..

"siasa za peni mbili"
 

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