EACC charges a P1 teacher with forgery of academic certificates
16:04:2024: EACC has today arraigned a primary school teacher on charges of forgery of academic certificates.
Agnes Gatumwa Mburuku alias Priscilla Mwonjiru Mburuku pleaded not guilty to all the six charges relating to forgery of academic papers before Hon. Dr. Victor Wakumile of Anti-Corruption Court in Milimani.
She was charged with one count of fraudulent acquisition of public property, three counts of deceiving principal, one of personation, and one of unlawful possession of an identity card belonging to any other person.
The Court heard that between October 2010 and December 2020 in Meru County, Ms Mburuku fraudulently acquired public property amounting to Kes3,222,129 from Teachers Service Commission (TSC) having been employed as a primary school teacher.
The Court was told that on 24th August 2010, Ms Mburuku gave the TSC false documents purporting that they belonged to her. They included a Primary Teacher’s Certificate, a Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), and an Identity Card all belonging to her sister, Priscilla Mwonjiru Mburuku, and that on diverse dates henceforth, she, with intent to defraud TSC, falsely represented herself as Priscilla Mwonjiru Mburuku.
Investigations by EACC established that the accused had personated her sister by using her secondary school certificate to enroll for a Primary School Teachers Certificate Course (P1) at Meru Teacher’s Training College. She had subsequently sought and secured employment with the Teachers Service Commission.
She denied all the charges and was released on a cash bail of Kes1 million or a bond of Kes3 million with a surety of a similar amount. The case will be mentioned on 2nd May 2024.
