Edwin Amagola Munyeti, an official at Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company (NAWASCO), has been arrested over allegations of forgery of an academic certificate to secure employment.
In a statement released on Monday, 12th, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) said Munyeti presented a fake Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) certificate to land a position at NAWASCO.
Following the forgery, Munyeti served at NAWASCO for about 14 years between March 2010 and December 2023 and pocketed a total of Sh9,080,267 in salary payments from public funds.
“The Commission launched investigations following allegations that the accused used a forged Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) certificate, falsely presented as genuine and issued by the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC), to secure employment at the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company,” a statement from EACC read.
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A case file was subsequently forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), who approved the prosecution of the individual.
The accused is expected to be arraigned on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, for plea taking.
The latest case follows a series of other forgery cases involving government officials and comes barely two months after four staff members of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) were arrested for allegedly using forged academic certificates to secure employment at the electoral body.
According to the EACC, the suspects, including three assistant election officers and a clerical officer, submitted falsified Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) certificates to fraudulently obtain their positions.
“Investigations established that the suspect submitted a forged KCSE certificate from NEP Girls Secondary School to secure employment at IEBC as an assistant election officer whose minimum requirement was a KCSE certificate,” EACC stated.
Another senior IEBC official, Kenneth Kiplangat Tonui, was in January 2025 busted for allegedly forging a KCSE certificate to obtain employment as a driver. Tonui allegedly fraudulently acquired salaries totaling Sh9,281,655 for about 13-year period.
According to Section 41 of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act (ACECA), knowingly giving false information to an employer (the “principal”) to gain employment can carry a 10-year imprisonment.
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