It was an anticipated appearance when Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu availed himself on the Jeff Koinange Live Citizen show. This was due to anticipation of hearing his side of the story in Nairobi’s governor Mike Sonko’s allegations that the two used to smoke weed in parliament premises.
He refuted the allegations saying its a lie and that he is against drug use.
On the other hand while addresing the issue of his real name (Clifford and Ferdinand) confusion, Waititu explained that he had no one to guide him when he was growing up in the slums of Kibera, therefore, couldn’t have known about the repercussions of changing names.
He claimed that he took the name Ferdinand when he was young. However, he would later drop it after the then president of the Philippines, who also had the name Ferdinand, got overthrown.
The Kiambu governor divulged that he took the name Clifford as he thought he wouldn’t continue with his education for lack of school fees. Furthermore, he also claimed that he had to forge his age when he applied to join the police force.
His stated that Clifford was the name he used when he was admitted to Punjab University.
However, he took an affidavit and got a job at the Ministry of Finance where he worked for five years without any complications using the name Ferdinand.