The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Fee (EACC) has known as for the suspension of Roads Superintendent Engineer Kenneth Kamumu Mugo over forgery-related fees.
In a letter addressed to Roads Principal Secretary (PS) Engineer Joseph Mbugua, the anti-graft company alleged that Mugo has been utilizing solid certificates to safe employment.
The fee additionally accused Mugo of fraudulently buying public property and uttering a false doc opposite to part 352 of the structure.
“The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Fee (EACC) has written to the Principal Secretary, Ministry of Roads and Transport requiring him to droop ‘Engineer’ Kenneth Kamumbu Mugo, at present Superintendent Engineer of Roads, on the State Division of Roads within the Ministry of Roads and Transport, who the Fee discovered to have solid his Bachelor’s Diploma in Civil Engineering purporting it to be issued by the College of Nairobi in 2006,” the fee stated.
In line with the fee which now seeks administrative motion in opposition to Mugo, the forgery allegations in opposition to Mugo have been first reported in 2016.
The fee, nonetheless, started investigations on the allegations in 2017, and on the time, they found that Mugo had solid a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering diploma from the College of Nairobi, Class of 2006.
The difficulty was forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions who gave the inexperienced gentle for the suspect to be charged.
“The fee obtained a grievance that Mr. Kenneth Mugo, who was by then the Director of Roads and Transport at Kiambu County Authorities between April 2016 and August 2018, used solid tutorial certificates to realize employment at Kiambu County Authorities.
“The Fee carried out investigations and established that the officer used solid certificates to realize employment. The file was forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions who gave consent to cost Mr. Kenneth Maumbu Mugo. The officer was subsequently arrested and charged earlier than Kiambu Anti-Corruption Courtroom Prison Case No. MCCR/E3456/2023 on fifteenth December,” EACC stated.
After the revelations, the suspect resigned from his job on the Kiambu County Authorities in 2018 however he was later appointed to the Ministry of Roads in 2020.
EACC additionally uncovered that the suspect used a faux certificates to enrol for a Submit-Graduate Certificates in Environmental Impression Evaluation and Environmental Audit at JKUAT in 2009.
He subsequently acquired a Grasp of Science Diploma in Environmental Laws and Administration awarded in 2012 and a Physician of Philosophy (PhD) Diploma in Environmental Expertise on the similar establishment.
After studying of his forgery, JKUAT discontinued him from his PhD research and withdrew his Masters and Postgraduate Certificates which had already been awarded to him.
The suspect was arrested and arraigned in court docket the place he pleaded not responsible to the fees and was launched on a money bail of Ksh500,000
The case will likely be talked about in court docket on January 15, 2024.
