Clifford Waititu is dead - Kabete MP Ferdinand Waititu blasts Kabogo for digging up a 'ghost'

By Hudson Gumbihi | 8yrs ago | 3 min read

Clifford Karanja Waititu, the man at the centre of a complicated identity theft allegations and a legal battle between Kabete MP Ferdinand Waititu and Kiambu Governor William Kabogo, is dead and buried.

Karanja was a nephew of the combative MP, now fighting to clear the air against claims he falsified his name to pocket a degree he never studied for. Kabogo says Waititu, who has sworn to dethrone him in the 2017 General Election, forged Karanja’s birth and education certificates.

In a sworn affidavit, the governor insists that Karanja and Waititu could be siblings sired by Waititu Ndogi and Monica Njeri Wainaina – the biological parents of the Kabete MP. Kabogo accuses Waititu of using Karanja’s documents to meet the academic requirements to run for a governor’s post.

But Waititu, nicknamed ‘Baba Yao’ by his supporters, accuses Governor Kabogo of peddling falsehoods about his identity and academic background out of fear he will oust him in 2017.

“Let him come up with sufficient evidence against Clifford Ndung’u Waititu. The person he is talking about was Clifford Karanja Waititu, who was the son of my stepsister. Kabogo is unable to produce forgery evidence against Clifford Ndung’u Waititu, who happens to be me. In fact, while I was studying in India, Karanja was undergoing training at NYS,” says the MP.

Waititu says Karanja, son of his elder stepsister Teresiah Wanjiru Waititu, died in 2007. Ndogi had two wives. The MP claims Kabogo, in a rush to prove he falsified his identity, failed to conduct a thorough background check.

Waititu, 53, insists he has only one blood brother, Josephat Wainaina Waititu, who lives in the USA. According to the lawmaker, his mother (Monica) ender her marriage to his violent father when he (Waititu) was around five years old. Following the separation, their mother took them to their maternal home in Ndondori in Nyandarua, where he was immediately admitted to Munro Primary School.

“Since it was our grandfather Wainaina Maitho who took me to school, I adopted his surname, Wainaina, which I used until Standard Seven,” said Waititu, adding that when his father got wind of his “achievement,” he travelled to Nyandarua where he begged to be reunited with his family.

“I was his first born boy child who had beaten all odds to complete primary school, the rest of my (older) siblings had not finished their primary education. My father was impressed and that is why he came looking for us,” he explained

Ndogi settled with his second family in Kibra as young Waititu proceeded to Ruiru High School, where he reportedly sat for his Kenya General Certificate of Education (KGCE) in 1979 before joining Dagoretti High School for his Form Three and Four classes. Waititu claims he proceeded to Kenya Polytechnic, now The Technical University of Kenya, where he obtained a Kenya Advanced Certificate of Education and later enrolled at Panjab University in 1985 through the assistance of Kenya Private Educational Services.

In India, he says he was admitted to Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, an affiliate of Panjab University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1988. Some of the documents in our possession, captures ‘Ferdinand’ and ‘Clifford’ – the two names in question.

But Kabogo is accusing the MP of abusing Chapter Six of the Constitution on leadership and integrity and wants the court to punish Waititu for stealing documents belonging to another person.