MP George Sunkuyia arrested over alleged forgery of KCSE certificate

Detectives from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) on Tuesday arrested Kajiado West Member of Parliament George Risa Sunkuyia over alleged forgery of academic certificates.

The MP is said to have forged his Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) certificate, purporting it to be grade C+, and fraudulently used the same document to enrol at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in 2012 and Mount Kenya University.

EACC says that Sunkuyia then ultimately used the irregularly acquired KCSE certificate to acquire a Diploma certificate at Mount Kenya University, and also offered the same to the anti-graft agency in 2012.

"On unknown dates and at an unknown place within the Republic of Kenya, (Sunkuyia) forged a Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, serial no. 2988066, with a mean grade of C+, purporting it to be a genuine certificate issued to you by the Kenya National Examinations Council, a fact you knew was false,” stated EACC.

“On the February 28, 2017 at the EACC, Nairobi, within Nairobi County in the Republic of Kenya, being a state officer, to wit a Member of County Assembly, knowingly provided false information to the EACC to wit a self-declaration form dated February 27, 2017 in which you indicated that you held a diploma in County Governance from Mount Kenya University, a fact you knew to be false."

According to a charge sheet seen by Citizen TV, the lawmaker now faces three counts of providing false information to EACC, forgery, and uttering a false document contrary to the law.