A senior officer from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) was charged in Nairobi’s Anti-Corruption Court with forging a master’s degree certificate.
The court heard that Caroline Sabiri Manyange forged a Master of Arts degree certificate claiming it to be a genuine certificate issued by the University of Nairobi during the graduation on May 9, 2004.
The accused is also facing four additional counts, including uttering a fake document in violation of Section 353 of the Penal Code and providing false information to a public employee in violation of Section 129(A) of the Penal Code.
The court heard that on April 4, 2021, at the IEBC offices in Nairobi, the accused knowingly and fraudulently presented a false document, namely the Master of Arts certificate, to the Human Resources and Administration Committee while they were conducting the suitability test for the position of Manager, Delimitation of Boundaries, claiming it to be a genuine document issued to her by the University of Nairobi.
She is also alleged to have given false information to the Officer in Charge of the Nyayo Police Post on May 6, 2024, by filing a complaint report for the loss of her university college certificate.
She pleaded not guilty to all charges before Principal Magistrate Isabellah Barasa and was released on a cash bail of Ksh 200,000.
The case is scheduled for mention on October 28 for pre-trial.
