Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has spoken about his academic level, hitting out at those who assume he was "primitive."
Gachagua said going through university to the point of graduating was not a light process.
"You know graduating is not a joke. I'm happy because when we were campaigning, hawa watu ya magazeti na social media (newspaper people and social media) were trying to portray me as somebody who was not learned.
"Until nilienda ile debate nikaporomosha kizungu wakajua mimi nimesoma (I went to the presidential running mate debate and my English proved I was learned)."
Gachagua spoke on Saturday at Outspan Medical College in Nyeri, during a graduation ceremony.
The DP named some of the well known people he had attended school with.
He mentioned Dedan Kimathi University vice chancellor Prof Ndirangu Kioni, saying the academician was a very apt student.
"We went to school with him from Form 1 to Form 4, from 1978 to 1981. Kioni is a witness that I went to high school, " he said,
Gachagua said Linus Gitai could confirm that he attended the University of Nairobi for his Bachelor degree from 1985 to 1988.
"So wale mlikuwa mnasema sijasoma mmesikia.(So to those who said I was not learned. You've heard it)," he said.
He added that he had enrolled for a Masters Programme in International relations with a bias to Conflict Management but he dropped it to concentrate on politics.
"Along the way when things settle down, I'll enrol for that programme,"Gachagua said.
During the ceremony attended by Health CS Susan Wafula, 415 graduates were awarded from various disciplines including nursing, clinical medicine, health records, psychology, health service support and nutrition and dietetics.
