The Milimani Anti-Corruption Court convicted the former driver on four counts and ordered him to refund salaries and pay fines.
A former Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company driver must pay Ksh7,542,673 after using a forged KCSE certificate to secure employment. The Milimani Anti-Corruption Court convicted him on four charges in a judgment delivered on October 29.
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) said the total includes salary compensation and fines. However, the court acquitted the former employee of a separate charge of forging the academic document.
Forged KCSE certificate showed a higher grade
The court established that the driver submitted a certificate showing a C plain in the 2002 KCSE examinations. His actual mean grade was D plain.
The four convictions concerned fraudulent acquisition of public property, use of a false document, deceiving his employer and presenting a forged certificate. The court therefore found him guilty of offences involving the document, but acquitted him of forging it.
EACC began investigating after receiving a report that the employee had used falsified qualifications to obtain the job. Following its investigation, the commission forwarded the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions with recommendations for criminal proceedings.
Salary refund and fines total Ksh7.54 million
The court ordered the former driver to refund Ksh6,742,673 in salaries received between November 2016 and December 2023. If he fails to pay, he faces four years in prison, with the terms running consecutively.
It also imposed fines totalling Ksh800,000 across the four offences. Individual penalties ranged from Ksh100,000 to Ksh300,000.
The conviction follows another case involving false academic credentials at a public agency. Days earlier, a former Nuclear Power and Energy Agency accountant received a Ksh130,000 fine for using falsified KCSE documents to secure employment.
EACC has also pursued cases involving other former public employees over questionable qualifications. These include a former Office of the Auditor-General employee linked to more than Ksh5.8 million in alleged fraudulent payments.
