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11 county workers arrested in cyber while forging employment letters

Homa Bay County workers during a head count which started on Monday. The workers are expected to present documents to audit firm PwC. [James Omoro, Standard]

Employees are also required to avail letters of arrival at work station, confirmation, promotion if any, interdiction or suspension, as well as certified education and professional certificates and their salary accounts details.

Addressing journalists at Homa Bay police station, Governance and Administration CECM Mercy Osewe said they got a tip-off from the public on the forgery syndicate.

"We got a report that some people were forging the employment letters they were going to present during the verification exercise. We had to rush there with police to apprehend them," said Osewe.

The suspects were detained at Homa Bay police station pending investigations and computers used to reproduce the documents were also confiscated.