A senior Human Resource Manager at the Rural Electrification Authority faced forgery charges in Milimani anti-corruption court. – By Meshack Makau.
Irene Chesang’ who is facing 10 counts of forgery made a brief appearance before Chief Magistrate Douglas Ogoti but did not plead to the charges since she broke down before the charges were read.
Magistrate Ogoti postponed the plea session to Tuesday next week to enable her compose herself. Ms Chesang is alleged to have forged her KCSE certificate and United States International University (USIU) degree certificate that she used in acquiring her job.
According to the charge sheets, the accused made a fake Bachelor of Science in International Business Administration degree certificate purporting it to be a genuine document issued by USIU on June 2000.
Ms. Chesang is presumed to have given out false information in her application letter for the position of Principal Human Resource officer by claiming she had studied and qualified for the degree of BSc in International Business Administration.
The accused further faces two counts of acquiring public property from Kenya Wildlife Service and Rural Electrification Authority valued at Ksh. 934,504 and 10,090,249.26 respectively. Ms. Chesang is also accused of providing false information to Rural Electrification Authority, a public entity, on January 31, 2018.
The prosecution argues that the accused forged academic transcripts from USIU from the year 1997 to 2000 purporting them to be genuine. She is also accused of forging her KCSE certificate from Solian Girls’ High School issued by the KNEC for the 1996 exams purporting to have scored a mean grade of B minus.
Chesang is also rumored to have forged an exemption letter dated June 29, 2008, issued to her by the Kenya Accountants and Secretaries National Examination Board. She is currently out on Ksh. 50,000 police bond.
