EACC arraigns IEBC employee for forgery of certificates
24:01:2025: A driver at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has today pleaded not guilty to the forgery of academic certificates.
Before Principal Magistrate Hon. Celesa Okore at Milimani Law Courts, Kenneth Kiplagat Tonui was charged in the first count with fraudulent acquisition of public property where the court heard that Between May 2011 and March 2024, while employed by the IEBC as a driver, he fraudulently acquired Kes9,281,655 in salaries based on a forged Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE).
In count two, Mr. Tonui was charged with deceiving the principal. The Court was told that on or about January 25th, 2010, being a public officer employed at the then Interim Independent Electoral Commission as a driver, the accused stated in his records that he possessed a KCSE with a mean grade of D+ from Kamungei Secondary School, which information he knew to be false.
He was charged in count three with forgery of KCSE Serial No. 2180752 and in count four with uttering a false document, being the KCSE, for purposes of being promoted from Driver Grade III to Driver Grade II.
He pleaded not guilty to all the charges. The Court released him on a cash bail of Kes100,000 or a bond of Kes500,000 with a surety of a similar amount. The matter will be mentioned for pretrial directions on January 31st, 2025.
