Ex-police recruit jailed over forgery

By Marion Ndung’u

An expectant ex-police recruit has been sent to jail for one and a half years after she was found guilty of forging her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education certificate to join the service.

Caroline Wanjiku Ngugi was accused of forging the certificates on May 12, 2011, at Kenya Police Training College in Kiganjo, Nyeri.

 She was also charged with uttering the forged certificate to a corporal at the college on May 25, 2011, at the college.

“It is clear the people use crooked means to get recruited in a force which at the end of the day is charged with the duty of fighting such crime,” said Chief Magistrate Wilbroda Juma while delivering the sentence.

The court heard that while Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) confirmed that the certificate itself was genuine, the marks of some subjects and the mean grade had been altered.

Wanjiku’s certificate indicated that she had scored a B Minus in the KSCE exam, which she sat in 2004, but records at the Knec indicated she had scored a C Minus.