Arts and Social Development Funds (SASDF) employees have been charged at the Milimani Law Courts for using false certificates to get employment in the public sector.
The three, John Onyango Odhiambo (44), Adan Bagajo Lamma (44), and George Ereng Lotieng (35), were charged with forgery, forging a document without authorization, and uttering a fake document before the Milimani Law Courts.
CRACKDOWN ON FAKE ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS INTENSIFIES AS SUSPECTS FACE LEGAL ACTION
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According to the DCI, the suspects used fake academic degrees to get work as drivers and improve their pay grades.
Onyango provided a forged 2011 KCSE certificate from Starays Hope Community Centre, Nairobi; Lamma produced a counterfeit 1998 KCSE certificate from Marsabit Boys High School despite dropping out of form two; and Lotieng submitted a forged KCSE certificate from St. Marks Boys High School, Cherangany, where he had also dropped out of form two.
DCI enlisted the assistance of KNEC, whose findings indicated that Onyango changed the results of all the subjects he had taken to get a mean grade of D+ and fulfill the qualification level for the position.
KNEC stated that Lamma had neither enrolled for or taken the exam since the centre (Marsabit Boys) with code 501512 did not exist during the 1998 KCSE examinations.
Such was the situation with Lotieng, whose supposed examination center (St. Mark Boys High School) did not exist in 2010, and the code on his certificate (401057) belonged to a different school, Ruthimitu Secondary.
According to the Public Service Commission, approximately 2000 government employees obtained positions by using fake academic and professional certificates.
