- David Mogire Nyabuti has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for using forged academic and disability certificates.
- The Anti-Corruption Court has established that Nyabuti secured his KenGen job using a forged KCSE certificate showing a C- instead of his actual D- grade.
- The court has found that Nyabuti also fraudulently obtained a disability certificate, which he used to access tax exemptions between 2014 and 2018.
A former Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) employee has been sentenced to 11 years in prison or fined more than Sh16 million after he was found guilty of using forged academic and disability certificates to secure employment and obtain financial benefits.
David Mogire Nyabuti was convicted by the Anti-Corruption Court after the prosecution, led by Naomi Isoe, proved that he fraudulently acquired public property and uttered false documents. Senior Principal Magistrate C. Okore ordered Nyabuti to pay Sh14,946,118 in compensation for the public property he fraudulently acquired, with a default sentence of five years in prison if he fails to pay. The court also fined him Sh900,000 for fraudulently acquiring public property, with a default sentence of two years.
Nyabuti was further convicted on two counts of uttering false documents contrary to Section 353 of the Penal Code. He was fined Sh200,000 on each count, with a default sentence of two years for each offence. The sentences will run concurrently.
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The court heard that Nyabuti worked at KenGen as a Craft Grade III employee from August 2003 until September 2018, when he resigned. The prosecution established that Nyabuti secured the job using a forged Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) certificate. He had actually sat for the 1994 KCSE examination at St Paul’s Igonga Secondary School, where he obtained a mean grade of D- from eight subjects. However, the certificate he presented to KenGen showed that he had obtained a mean grade of C-. The forged document enabled him to secure employment and subsequently earn salaries and other benefits amounting to Sh14,946,118.82.
The court also found that Nyabuti fraudulently obtained a disability certificate from the National Council for Persons with Disabilities. The certificate enabled him to benefit from tax exemptions between July 2014 and September 2018. His fraud came under scrutiny after KenGen required him to produce his original academic certificates, prompting his resignation from the company in September 2018.
By Kimwele Mutuku
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