Another official attached to the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (REREC) has been arraigned for allegedly having a forged academic certificate.
The official, Eunice Ngima Gachugi, a Supply Chain Management Officer at REREC, is said to have forged a Diploma in Business Information and Technology from Kenya Methodist University.
Gachugi was arrested on Monday and charged with forgery of the diploma certificate, uttering a false document, the fake diploma certificate she presented to REREC, giving false information to a person employed in the public service, deception and fraudulent acquisition of public property, being the cumulative salary amounting to Ksh293,457.07 that she earned for three months.
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"Between 1st April 2022 and 15th July 2022 within Nairobi County in the Republic of Kenya, being a public officer employed at the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation as a Supply Chain Management Assistant (Inventory and Logistics), you fraudulently acquired public property amounting to Kshs. 293,457.07 being salary paid to you from the said Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation for uttering a false academic document namely Diploma in Business Information and Technology which the said public body relied upon to employ you," the charge sheet read in part.
"On unknown date and unknown place within the Republic of Kenya, with intent to deceive, forged a document namely a Diploma in Business Information and Technology certificate number KB0537 in the name of Eunice Ngima Gachugi purporting it to be a genuine document issued to you by the Kenya Methodist University on 26th July 2014, a fact you knew to be false."
However, she resigned after the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) started investigating her over the vice.
Appearing before Chief Magistrate Thomas Nzyoki, the accused denied the charges levelled against her. She was released on a cash bail of Ksh200,000 or an alternative bond of Ksh500,000 with one surety of a similar amount.
The matter will be mentioned on Monday, March 25, 2024, for pre-trail directions.
Another REREC employee charged
In February, a supply chain management officer attached to the REREC was arrested for allegedly having a forged degree certificate.
The suspect, Dennis Thuo Kimani, was arrested by sleuths from EACC on Tuesday, February 20, 2024.
"EACC has today arrested and arraigned before the Milimani Anti-Corruption Court one Dennis Thuo Kimani, who forged his academic certificates to secure a job as a Supply Chain Management Officer at the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (REREC)," EACC confirmed the arrest.
According to the charge sheet seen by K24 Digital, Kimani forged a degree certificate in Purchasing and Supplies Chain Management and transcripts from first to fourth year, purporting them to be genuine documents legitimately attained from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT).
"On the 12th day of January 2021 at the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation, within Nairobi County, with intent to deceive, knowingly and fraudulently uttered a forged Degree Certificate in Purchasing and Supplies Chain Management number 3705 in the name of Dennis Thuo Kimani to CPA Peter Mbugua, the Chief Executive Officer at the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation, purporting it to be a genuine document issued to you by the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, a fact you knew to be false," the charge sheet seen by this writer read in part.
He was arraigned before Anti-Corruption Principal Magistrate Gichana where he denied the charges of forgery, uttering false documents and fraudulent acquisition of public property entailing the cumulative amount of salaries and benefits that he earned based on the fake certificates.
He was released on a bond of Ksh700,000 or a cash bail of Ksh200,000.
