Juja MP Koimburi Freed After Being Accused Of Forging Academic Certificates 30 Years Later
He was arraigned at the Kiambu Law Courts following his arrest on Tuesday, February 18.
Viral Tea Ke Writer 
Juja Member of Parliament George Koimburi was on Wednesday, February 19 released on a Ksh200,000 cash bail after denying multiple charges, including the falsification of academic documents, some dating back to 1994.
The MP was slapped with three charges related to forging academic certificates and three more for uttering false documents. He was arraigned at the Kiambu Law Courts following his arrest on Tuesday, February 18.
Prosecuting Counsel, Assistant Director of Public Prosecution Everlyn Onunga, told the court that “On diverse dates between November and December 1994 at an unknown time and place within Republic of Kenya, with intent to deceive, the MP forged a Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) certificate to wit Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) purporting it to be a genuine and dully signed certificate issued by KNEC,” said the Office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) in an X statement.
He was charged with two other counts of forging a Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) certificate of participation in the East African Universities Accession Project and a JKUAT Academic Excellence certificate from the Department of School of Human Resource Development, between September 2011 and April 2012.
Juja MP George Koimburi arraigned at the Kiambu Law Courts on February 19, 2025. /ODPP
The MP was also charged with allegedly uttering the said academic certificates and Certificate of participation, purporting them to be genuine and duly signed certificates issued by KNEC and JKUAT.
The court heard that the accused person knowingly and fraudulently uttered the said certificates on March 8, 2021, at the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission (EACC) offices.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges. Further, the court will rule on February 20, 2025, on whether the legislator will be handed another charge of failing to attend court as preferred by the prosecution.
The accused was initially charged with forging academic certificates on April 26, 2021, and released on a bond of Ksh100,000. The court would later issue a warrant of arrest on September 16, 2021 after the MP failed to attend to court summons and forfeited his cash bail.
Koimburi was reportedly intercepted by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives while heading to Parliament on Tuesday morning.
Kiambu Senator Karungo Wa Thang'wa mentioned that he received a phone call from Koimburi while he was being escorted to the Kiambu Road Headquarters, though he did not disclose the reasons for the detention.
He was arrested just days after alleging that the government spent Sh13 billion campaigning for former Prime Minister Raila Odinga in the African Union Commission (AUC) elections.
His lawyer, Ndegwa Njiru, claimed that the arrest was linked to Koimburi's comments on the AUC elections, in which Raila lost to Djibouti's Mahmoud Ali Youssouf.
