The Commission for University Education (CUE) has revoked the recognition of Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja’s controversial degree from Team University in Uganda.

In a statement, CUE Chief Executive Officer Prof Mwenda Ntarangwi said the commission reached the decision after its investigations into Sakaja’s degree revealed glaring errors.

It noted that his degree read Bachelor of Science in Management (External), yet Team was not accredited by the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) to offer such a course.


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The commission established that Team was only accredited to offer Bachelor of Science in Management even as the list of its accredited programmes were mysteriously inaccessible.

CUE revealed that a letter from NCHE said that Team University had confirmed that Sakaja had enrolled for a Bachelor of Science in Management and not a Bachelor of Science in Management (External) as the degree certificate he presented to CUE showed.


Commission CEO Ntarangwi also said in the statement that Sakaja in 2017, when vying for Senator, indicated that he only had a degree from the University of Nairobi, and not Team.

In a letter to CUE, he said, UoN had indicated that the UDA Nairobi governor candidate had enrolled for Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science in 2003 but never finished his studies.


Ntarangwi added that it had not received “any basic” proof that the senator pursued studies at Team University and earned a degree in Bachelor of Science in Management (External).