Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company Limited (NCWSC) has been charged with forging a Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) to secure employment in the company.
In a statement, the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) said the suspect, Teresia Chepkemoi Chepkwony, was charged on Wednesday, August 20, before the Milimani Anti-Corruption Court.
According to the ODPP, the suspect forged a KCSE certificate, falsely claiming to have scored a mean grade of C+ in the exam.
“The court heard that on an unknown date and place within the Republic of Kenya, with the intent to deceive, she forged a Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) in the name of Chepkemoi Teresia bearing a mean grade of C plus from Boron Secondary School, purporting it to be a genuine document issued to her by the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC), a fact she knew to be false,” read part of the statement.
The suspect was also charged with an offense of fraudulent acquisition of public property.
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The court was told that Chepkemoi fraudulently acquired public property amounting to Ksh7,590,872 from the salary she earned between March 1, 2013, and December 31, 2023, at Nairobi Water.
Further, the suspect was charged with uttering a false document and deceiving the principal, contrary to section 41(2) as read with section 48 of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act.
“She deceived Titus Tuitoek, the human resource manager, by filling out a personnel record form stating that she is a holder of a Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education with a mean grade of C plus, which information she knew to be false,” ODPP stated.
Chepkemoi pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on a Ksh500,000 bond with one surety of the amount.
The case will be mentioned on September 3, 2025, for further directions.
This comes days after the Nairobi Anti-Corruption Court sentenced Noah Okech Oluoch, a former senior official of the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (REREC), to pay a total fine of Ksh3 million or serve four years in prison for using forged academic credentials to secure employment and earn a salary.
Oluoch was found guilty of fraudulently acquiring public funds between April 1, 2022, and August 31, 2022.
Noah Okech Oluoch, aka Noah Oketch Oluoch, was found guilty of fraudulently acquiring public property in terms of salary and allowances of Ksh1,455,066.05 from the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation, having been employed using a forged degree certificate, “the ODPP said in a statement.
The court imposed a fine of Ksh100,000 or one year in prison, alongside a mandatory fine of Ksh2.9 million or two years’ imprisonment in default.
