Written By John Mutiso 📝
Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi failed to appear in court on Tuesday for the hearing of his education certificate forgery case after he allegedly contracted Covid-19 and is in quarantine.
His lawyers, led by Thomas Ruto, told trial magistrate Felix Kombo that medics advised the MP to remain isolated in order to recover.
The lawyer therefore urged the court to adjourn the matter for 30 days to permit his client to recuperate.
Prosecuting counsel Joseph Riungu confirmed that the defence lawyers called him on Monday to convey the same information that Sudi is unwell.
He added that he had two witnesses in court ready to testify in the matter.
The magistrate allowed the plea and adjourned the case to March 24, 2022.
Sudi is accused of presenting the forged education papers at the electoral commission when he sought nomination for the 2013 general election.
In particular, he has been charged with forging a Diploma Certificate in Business Management purporting it to be a genuine document issued by the Kenya Institute of Management.
He is also accused of forging his KCSE certificate.
Glaring discrepancies on Sudi’s certificates emerged when the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) asked the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) to find out whether Sudi sat for KCSE in 2006 at Highway School.
KNEC testified in court that the code appearing on Sudi’s KCSE does not belong to the school he purportedly sat for the exam.
“We also established that a candidate by the name Oscar Sudi did not appear in the year 2006 KNEC database for either Highway or Parklands Secondary school,” KNEC Principal Examinations Secretary Nabiki Ene Kashu testified.
It testified that the number 36262 on the certificate presented by Sudi belonged to a certificate issued to one Elkanah K. Kimutai of admission number NRB/20870 of Diploma in Purchasing and Supplies Management which was issued on September 24, 2009.
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