The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has charged an artisan employed by the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company for earning a salary of KSh 5 million using a Form Four certificate that he forged in 1997.
Joshua Attuah Omia was charged in Milimani Anti-Corruption Court with the offences of fraudulent acquisition of public property, forgery, uttering a false document, deceiving a principal, and presentation of a forged certificate.
The court heard that from August 2015 to December 31, 2023, while working as an artisan at Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company Limited, the accused illegally obtained public money, totalling KSh 5,909,037.10, which was his salary earned after getting hired with a fake KCSE certificate that he claimed was issued by KNEC and that the company used to hire him.
He was additionally charged with forging a KCSE certificate with a mean grade of C minus, purporting it to be a genuine document issued to him by the Kenya National Examination Council; he was also charged with uttering a false document, namely KCSE certificate number KSCE518142, in the name of Omia A. Joshua.
The DPP further charged him with an additional count of deceiving the principal and presentation of a forged certificate to gain employment.
It is alleged that on or about the 27th of July, 2015, at Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company within Nairobi County, being a public employee at Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company, knowingly and intentionally deceived his principal by stating that he is a holder of a form IV qualification grade C minus from Etete Secondary School obtained between 1994 and 1997, information he filled in his personnel record form and submitted to Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company for the purpose of updating his records.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on a bond of 1 million with similar surety and cash bail of Ksh. 300,000. The case will be mentioned on 27th May 2027.
