Report exposes depth of fake papers scam at Mombasa Port

The port of Mombasa. Documents from the Kenya Ports Authority have indicated that hundreds of workers could have been hired based on false academic documents. [PHOTO: MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD]

Confidential documents filed in court in Mombasa have shed new light on the fake certificate employment saga at the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), which has already sacked 132 disgraced workers, including 25 lower and middle-level managers.

These documents have spurred fresh concerns over the actual extent of the rot and number of those lacking genuine papers by questioning records made by the Human Resource Department between 2012 and August, last year.