A supply chain management officer attached to the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (REREC) has been arrested for allegedly having a forged degree certificate.
The suspect, Dennis Thuo Kimani, was arrested by sleuths from the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission (EACC) on Tuesday, February 20, 2024.
“EACC has today arrested and arraigned before the Milimani Anti-Corruption Court one Dennis Thuo Kimani, who forged his academic certificates to secure a job as a Supply Chain Management Officer at the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (REREC),” EACC confirmed the arrest.
According to the charge sheet seen by K24 Digital, Kimani forged a degree certificate in Purchasing and Supplies Chain Management and transcripts from first to fourth year, purporting them to be genuine documents legitimately attained from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT).
“On the 12th day of January 2021 at the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation, within Nairobi County, with intent to deceive, knowingly and fraudulently uttered a forged Degree Certificate in Purchasing and Supplies Chain Management number 3705 in the name of Dennis Thuo Kimani to CPA Peter Mbugua, the Chief Executive Officer at the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation, purporting it to be a genuine document issued to you by the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, a fact you knew to be false,” the charge sheet seen by this writer read in part.
He was arraigned before Anti-Corruption Principal Magistrate Gichana where he denied the charges of forgery, uttering false documents and fraudulent acquisition of public property entailing the cumulative amount of salaries and benefits that he earned based on the fake certificates.
He was released on a bond of Ksh700,000 or a cash bail of Ksh200,000.
The matter will be mentioned in court on March 11, 2024.
