EACC Exposes Engineer Who Faked Degree to Get Employment in Ruto's Gov't

 

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is pursuing charges against a top Ministry of Roads and Transport officer. Kenneth Mugo (pictured left) is accused of forging his degree certificate from the University of Nairobi.  Kenneth Kamumbu Mugo, the Superintendent Engineer of Roads at the State Department of Roads, is accused of forging a degree certificate from the University of Nairobi. The credentials show he graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering. Lucrative job in government The anti-graft agency flagged the certificate as fake in 2018 after its investigations; Mugo was working in the Kiambu county government at the time. Following the probe by the EACC, he resigned but got rehired in 2020 in his current post in government. According to the EACC, Mugo used the certificate to successfully enrol for a Post-Graduate Certificate in Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Audit and a Master of Science Degree in Environmental Legislation and Management, all at JKUAT. In a letter addressed to the Ministry, the EACC sought the suspension of Mugo from his current post before his arraignment to face charges. "The commission wants the “Civil Engineer” suspended from office until the case is concluded pursuant to Section 62(1) of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, 2003 after he was arrested and charged on 15th December, 2023. He was arraigned before Senior Principal Magistrate Peter Ouko of the Kiambu Anti-Corruption Court. The matter is coming up for pre-trial on 15th January 2024," partly read the EACC letter. As per the charge sheet, Mugo is set to face three counts, including fraudulent acquisition of public property, forgery, and uttering of false documents. Similarly, the EACC recently arrested a Garissa University Senior Computer Technologist suspected of forging the academic documents he used to secure employment and promotion at the institution. University IT expert caught with forged certificates Abdihakim Dagane Hassan was said to have forged a Bachelor of Business Information Technology degree certificate from Mount Kenya University in which he purported to have been awarded Second Class Honours Upper Division. Sources at EACC said the suspect used the forged degree certificate to secure admission for a postgraduate degree namely Master of Business Administration (Management Information Systems) at Kenyatta University in September 2017. “The suspect was apprehended by EACC detectives on, Monday, April, 17, and processed at EACC Regional Office in Garissa where he was released on police bail of KSh 50,000 pending arraignment before the Garissa Law Courts on Wednesday, April, 19,” the EACC sources revealed. During his interrogation at the EACC offices, the suspect allegedly revealed to officers that several other officials at the institution had fake academic papers. “Why are you focussing on me only yet almost everyone at my workplace has fake academic certificates?” he claimed. 

by  Kai Eli