A court has convicted Teresiah Wanjiku Ndungi, an employee of the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation, of forging her academic certificate to secure employment.
According to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), Ndungi was sentenced to four years in prison or a fine of Sh300,000.
The anti-graft agency stated that Ndungi had forged a Diploma in Archives & Records Management, claiming to have attained it from the Kenya Institute of Management, and used it to get a job at the corporation.
Investigations by the EACC revealed that Ndungi was charged with forgery, uttering a false document, deceiving a public entity, and fraudulent acquisition of Sh479,021, which was the cumulative sum paid as salary based on fake academic qualifications.