3 Govt Employees Arrested For Forging Academic Papers To Get Jobs & Increase Their Pay
Two 44-year-olds and a 35-year-old who were employed as drivers were arrested for submitting fake academic certificates to secure jobs and enhance their pay grades.
Viral Tea Ke Writer 
Three employees from the Sports, Arts and Social Development Fund (SASDF), were arrested by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) for forging academic certificates to gain access to jobs and advance their career within the Public Service.
DCI in a statement on Sunday, May 19 revealed that the suspects were arraigned for the offences of Forgery, Making a document without authority and uttering a false document at the Milimani Law Courts. This followed comprehensive investigations implicating the trio.
Two 44-year-olds and a 35-year-old who were employed as drivers were arrested for submitting fake academic certificates to secure jobs and enhance their pay grades.
The first suspect was revealed to have submitted a falsified 2011 KCSE certificate from Starays Hope Community Center, Nairobi.
E.C.D.E Diploma Certificates in display. /FIA
The second suspect presented a counterfeit 1998 KCSE certificate from Marsabit Boys High School despite having dropped out in Form Two.
Similarly, the third suspect submitted a forged KCSE certificate from St. Marks Boys High School, Cherangany, where he had also dropped out in Form Two.
A report from KNEC revealed that the first suspect manipulated the grades of all the subjects he had taken to achieve a mean grade of D+ in order to meet the qualification threshold for the job.
As for the second suspect, he had neither registered nor sat the said exam since the centre (Marsabit Boys) under code 501512 did not exist during the 1998 KCSE examinations.
"Such was the case with the third suspect, whose alleged centre of examination (St. Mark Boys High Sch) did not exist as of 2010, and the code indicated in his certificate (401057) belonged to a different school, Ruthimitu Secondary," stated the DCI in part.
The suspects were charged on Friday, May 17 at the Milimani Law Courts.
According to the Public Service Commission, more than 2,000 government employees are culpable of using forged academic and professional qualifications to secure jobs or earn promotions.
Furthermore, at least 331 institutions were targeted in the probe, of which 52 were ministries, State Departments, and Agencies.
Meanwhile, the DCI is working closely with other government agencies to investigate the cases.
The arrest comes after President William Ruto on Wednesday, April 17 called for government officers with forged certificates to resign after they were called out by a section of state agencies in the public service workforce audit.
According to the Head of State, the government was unable to keep unqualified Kenyans in various government positions.
"Those who have earned money by using fake certificates should refund us that money. Those in government should leave and go and look for money to pay us. We must do what we need to do. I am ready to face the consequences," he stated.
